The partial collapse of a ferry dock that left seven people dead during an annual cultural festival has left a historic Black ...

South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statute of a Black person, Robert Smalls, on its Statehouse lawn in its ...

At Sunday’s news conference, state Rep. Al Williams (D) said he and others in the Gullah Geechee community throughout the United States were “mourning along with our many, many friends.” ...

In the midst of a celebration of the island’s small Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants, a gangway collapsed on the visitor ferry dock shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday and plunged ...

Investigators have begun looking for reasons behind the failure at a ferry dock on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people. By Corina Knoll ...

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of African Americans who were enslaved on plantations along the lower Atlantic coasts. Many came from West Africa's rice-growing regions. Their isolation ...

As visitors were leaving Sepalo island's annual Cultural Day, which celebrates the Gullah Geechee community's heritage, a ferry dock on Sapelo Island collapsed on Saturday afternoon. The collapse ...

An estimated 700 people were on Sapelo Island, about 72 miles south of Savannah, to celebrate the Gullah Geechee history and its unique blend of African culture and American life when the collapse ...

The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, during a vibrant Cultural Day event celebrating the unique heritage of the Gullah-Geechee community, which consists of the descendants of ...