SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - Not done fighting yet. That’s what some members of one of Georgia’s last intact Gullah communities is telling their county leaders. They’re bringing a ...

“The heart of every Georgian is with the Gullah Geechee community & the people of Sapelo Island tonight.” The Sapelo Island Ferry will resume operations Monday, according to the natural ...

“But they can’t. There’s nothing for them.” The Sapelo Island Culture and Revitalization Society is working to build a Geechee Gullah Cultural Interpretative Village—an interactive ...

Sapelo Island is a state-protected barrier island in southeastern ... Most of the island’s permanent residents live in the Hog Hammock community, home to African-Americans of Gullah-Geechee descent, ...

This year’s festival will include a somber note, as the Gullah community continues to mourn the loss of seven residents of nearby Sapelo Island, who died in a gangway collapse at a Gullah ...

Small coastal communities descended from enslaved island populations in the South — known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia — are scattered from North Carolina to Florida, including on Sapelo ...

The incident comes less than five months after a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, killing seven people who were visiting the area for a Gullah Geechee heritage festival.

Authorities said at least seven people were killed Saturday when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island ... fall celebration by the island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community ...

where crowds gathered for a celebration by the island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.