Episodios

  • Keeper of the Culture | Glander Pressly

    Keeper of the Culture | Glander Pressly
    Jul 13 2025
    Like a lot of people, Glander Pressly grew up in the culture, but through her work she shares its richness all the time. For her, spreading Gullah is a deeply personal experience that she appreciates every day. It's easy to say that you appreciate something, but the mental impact and muscule memmory that kicks in, especially when she looks at slave cabins or handles shackles or any other remnants from the ancestors leaves a very strong and lasting impression that's hard to put into words.
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    45 m
  • Cultural Heritage Tour

    Cultural Heritage Tour
    Jul 6 2025
    For years and years, people have been asking about what's the best way to experience the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor. And sure, making random stops from North Carolina to Florida can be done, but now there's a Cultural Heritage Tour that's not only an immersive experience, but a pilgrimage that is a journey of memory, land and liberation that follows the path of how our ancestors were able to resist and survive.
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    28 m
  • So What Is Heirs' Property? Part 2

    So What Is Heirs' Property? Part 2
    Jun 29 2025
    The Heirs Property issue is at a critical point in the Gullah Geechee community. The question is often asked how land can be sold from under someone even if they're living on the property. Join me in a fascinating conversation with Pastor Robin Dease who not only has heirs' property, but has also studied it, as well as worked to resolve it with members of her former congegation on John's Island, South Carolina.
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    33 m
  • So What Is Heirs' Property?

    So What Is Heirs' Property?
    Jun 22 2025
    Land is land. Either you own it, or you don’t. Like any other asset, it has a value that can be calculated into a cost, right? Well, interestingly enough, the answer to that question varies, depending on who you’re asking. To most people, the answer is a clear and definitive yes. However, to a Gullah / Geechee, or native islander, the answer might be a resounding no. Confused? Let me explain.
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    28 m
  • Descended

    Descended
    Jun 20 2025
    Most of the descendents of the diaspora are really orphans. We might know our direct parents, but time and generations erase our connections to who we really are, as the cultural void is so great. With today's tools, documents and some research, the distance between the known and unknown can become smaller. Author of Descended: Searching for my Gullah Geechee Roots, Keith Rushing not only did the work, he has shown how its possible to close the information gap and uncover exactly who and what he's made of.
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    51 m
  • The Slave Brokers

    The Slave Brokers
    Jun 8 2025
    America was a slave society and its involvement from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade to the Domestic Slave Trade might be known, but the details are often overlooked. The Slave Traders or Brokers were the core and very foundation of the economic engine that kept slavery going. But, how was it done? Who were the Brokers? What type of people were they?
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    1 h y 7 m
  • Music's Regional Impact

    Music's Regional Impact
    Jun 1 2025
    Musical influences can come from anywhere, but never before have we been able to understand the cultural and regional impacts that the very sounds that we hear in various parts of the US and around the world come from all around the diaspora. So from African beats to the blended sounds from the Gullah community to Cajun and Northern states, wherever you're hearing music, it can be and has been traced back to its origins. Listen in on a fascinating conversation about a study on where the variety of music and genres that we love truly came from.
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    34 m
  • Edisto Island

    Edisto Island
    May 26 2025
    When it comes to the Gullah Islands, Hilton Head and St. Helena, South Carolina and Sapelo and Jekyll Islands in Georgia, are usually the ones that are the first to come to mind. But sandwiched between Hilton Head and Charleston is Edisto Island, which just like the rest of the Gullah islands, has a rich and storied history of its own.
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    55 m