Gullah Geechee

Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears.

Africans on board a slave ship in 1803 rebelled and drove their enslavers into the water right as they were arriving in Georgia. Then some of the Africans walked into the water and disappeared.

Jonathan Green is widely known for his art depicting Gullah culture and the South Carolina Lowcountry. His new book, "Gullah Spirit," just published, and he's stopping by Charlotte's Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture for a reception.

Climate change is on the minds of world leaders gathering for the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. They'll be talking about emissions reductions, carbon markets and other tactics to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. It's far removed from South Carolina's Low Country, where members of the Gullah Geechee Nation are already feeling the effects of climate change.

A new genealogy research project in South Carolina could help preserve land belonging to the descendants of enslaved people who've retained much of their African culture and heritage.

Charleston restaurateur Martha Lou Gadsden passed away on April 1. She was renowned for her brand of Southern soul food, served out of a renovated gas station with every meal made to order.

P. Djèlí Clark's new novella is set in an alternate Jim Crow America where the Ku Klux Klan contains actual pointy-headed white demons, and The Birth Of a Nation is not just a film but an incantation.

Quentin Baxter and Clay Ross mix gospel and R&B with Gullah music, which originated from the descendants of formerly enslaved Africans who made their home in South Carolina's lowcountry.

The Gullah Geechee language is spoken by descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to the coastal South. Now, the language is being taught at Harvard University.

The Gullah Geechee culture and way of life are being threatened by climate change and development.