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

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 ...

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. ‒ "Catastrophic failure" was blamed Sunday for the collapse of a dock gangway that killed seven people and plunged more than a dozen others into murky waters, bringing tragedy to a ...