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Arts

For this 89-year-old Gullah Geechee chef, cooking is about heart

6:30am August 15, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Emily Meggett has spent decades caring for her community and family with her delicious, traditional Gullah Geechee food from South Carolina. Now, she's sharing that cuisine with the world.

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Cornelia Walker Bailey is pictured in the kitchen doorway of her Wallow Lodge before sweeping the front stoop. Bailey, who died Oct. 15, was considered the Geechee "griot," a West African term for storyteller, and fought to keep sacred the community's his

Arts

Remembering Cornelia Walker Bailey, A Giant Of Gullah Geechee Culture

6:03pm October 25, 2017

by Alexis Diao

Bailey, who died Oct. 15, was considered the Geechee "griot," a West African term for storyteller, and fought to keep alive the community's history and way of life, especially its food culture.

Hundreds of adult wood storks gather on the tops of trees at the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge.

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Environment

Old Land Battle Resurfaces In Georgia Between The Gullah And The Government

4:19pm March 18, 2015

by Gabrielle Ware

The Gullah people, who are descendants of West African slaves, want to return to land the U.S. government took away during World War II. But the land has been a wildlife refuge for 40 years.

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