Residents of Sapelo's Hogg Hummock community are riding a rollercoaster of emotions after a dock collapse claimed seven lives ...

The fact that those who died in the Sapelo Island disaster were older didn’t make this loss any less devastating. If anything ...

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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.” ...

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 ...

The Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island were already facing a number of stressors: gentrification, tax hikes and an ongoing exodus of islanders to the mainland where there are schools and ...

The deaths of seven people on Sapelo Island have brought to the fore longstanding frustrations among its Gullah Geechee community. By Emily Cochrane and Jacey Fortin The dozens of descendants of ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Hank Sanders Seven people died on Saturday when a gangway collapsed at a ferry dock on a Georgia island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of the Gullah Geechee, a community of ...

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 ...