Top photo - CSO Gospel Choir and CSO Spiritual Ensemble - Royal Miss. Baptist Jan. 14.
Left photo-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday, January 15th. Natl Holiday.Jan.20
Right photo-Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba, Imani:Kwanzaa Principles
GGN-Gullah/Geechee News Jan.-Apr. 2012
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Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor map (Click here)
Gullah/Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who reside primarily in a four-state coastal corridor of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. In 2006, SC Congressman James Clyburn, led the Congress into enacting legislation to create a National Heritage Area (NHA) called
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
This new "NewsSource" is about the history, culture, art, land, food, music, religion, and current affairs of these millions of people still living along the Atlantic Ocean coast and the busy north-south Interstate Hwy 95.
CONTACT:
Michael Allen, Education Specialist
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
1214 Middle Street
Sullivans Island, SC 29482
843-881-5516 x-12
Michael_allen@nps.gov
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PRESERVATION (Sankofa) SOCIETY January 2012 
Sankofa Bird
OUTREACH -21 PUBLIC HEARINGS – COMMENTS RE JOBS, BUSINESSES, hISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND TOURISM; -UNEMPLOYED Gullah/Geechee MEN/WOMEN AGES 16-40; prospective BUSINESS OWNERS; ENTREPRENEURS; CAREER SEEKERS;
- GULLAH GEECHEE PRESERVATION (Sankofa) SOCIETY; worldwide, beyond Corridor 4 states
JOB CREATION INITIATIVE
job creation
the process of making more paid jobs available
(Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
U.S. Department of Labor TO CREATE- Good Jobs, Safe Jobs, Green Jobs
“…NHAs are working successfully to build coalitions, provide education and training on best practices and to ultimately create jobs”. Alliance of National Heritage Areas, 2010 Annual Report. www.gullahgeecheenews.com
GGG’s JOB CREATION initiative uniquely involves Outreach, Match; Job, career, business owner and entrepreneur link ups; a focus on tradition and creative innovation; historic preservation and tourism.
Welcome to the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
“Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, N.C. in the north to Jacksonville, Fl. in the south. It is home to one of America's most unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendants. www.nps.gov/guge.
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission Holds 21 Public Meetings in 2009
In February 2009, a newsletter was sent out to individuals and organizations in all four states within the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida). Newsletters or comment forms were also distributed at public meetings and other events within the corridor throughout the spring and summer of 2009. Additionally, 21 public meetings were held in 19 communities in the four states within the cultural heritage corridor from February-August, 2009. These meetings provided the public an opportunity to express their thoughts and opinions about the future of the corridor. During the official comment period 125 individual correspondences were received via letter, e-mail, electronic entries into PEPC, or hardcopy comment forms. Additionally, there were many people that spoke at each of the 21 public meetings. .. the public input yielded 1,553 total comments.”
OUTREACH -21 PUBLIC HEARINGS – COMMENTS RE JOBS, BUSINESSES, hISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND TOURISM; ON Street CORNERS
-UNEMPLOYED Gullah/Geechee MEN/WOMEN AGES 16-40; prospective BUSINESS OWNERS; ENTREPRENEURS; CAREER
SEEKERS;
MATCH - Link UP outreach parties with jobs, businesses. G/G projects to be developed into jobs and businesses
JOBS, CAREERS, BUSINESS OWNERS, Entrepreneurs—Current positions advertised; new positions created from G/G Corridor; Interns, lawyers, researchers, publicists, builders, planners, videographers
TRADITIONAL-quilting, basket making, boat making, fishing nets, crabbing, fishing, preserving food (canning), sugar cane into syrup, hammocks, doll making.
INNOVATION – computers, music, fashion, inventions (patents), hist. pres. Developers, more….
HISTORIC PRESERVATION- oral history, schools, cemeteries, houses, artifacts in houses (Smithsonian); Land, tabbies, history of houses/bldgs., maps of old communities, lakes, rivers and marsh between islands and also into the Atlantic Ocean, Gullah language, churches, praise houses.
TOURISM- sites, communities, houses, cemeteries, living descendants of enslaved ancestors, Africa ties
PLEASE BECOME AN ADVERTISER, DONOR, SPONSOR (See form below)
Table of Contents
NEW ITEMS IN BURGUNDY
Welcome//About Us/Contact Us
job creation
Calendar
Events
Grant Professionals
SC African American Heritage Commission
Hilton Head 2012
"Red Tails" Movie Jan. 20
Charleston Black Tourism
ASALH papers deadline
Black History Month
Magnolia Gardens
Linkin UP: Pawleys Island, Beaufort, Mt. Pleasant
The GGCH Corridor Commission
2/24/12 Jacksonville, Fl. Meeting
Partnership Application
2011 Mtg. at Dorchester Academy, GA.
Spotlight on Griffin Lotson
Education & Religion
2012 Scholarships for Black Students
Lorenzo Dow Turner-Avery
J. Herman Blake, Ph.D.
Guestbook
Gullah Flags - Penn Center
Health, Lifestyle, & Youth
Water Tours
Medical U. of S. Carolina MUSC
History
Assn. African American Museums
Watchnight service
African Peoples
Bro. Dudley Thompson In Memoriam
North America Africa Diaspora Unity Council (NAADUC)
Remembering Haiti
Erzili Danto on Haiti
The Land, The People, The Art
HHS Secretary Sebelius on African American History Month
The Georgian Geechee Gullah Shouters
Three by Katie B. Catalon
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African articles will be featured when material is available. Multicultural coverage within the Corridor will include Native Americans, Hispanics, Scots-Irish, Germans, Asians, and other diverse groups that influence and have been influenced by Gullah/Geechee people.
Gullah/Geechee Group, Inc. nonprofit is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, education, and/or religious purposes. The purpose is 1) to support the four coastal states of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor –South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida—through education about the Gullah/Geechee people and their designation as a National Heritage Area; 2) to communicate through a digital “newsSource”- Gullah/Geechee News--and other means like studies, seminars (webinars) publications--about history, culture, arts, land, food, music, religion, current affairs, etc.
MEMBERSHIP consists of the board of directors. There shall be an advisory body as the board deems appropriate. Board members are Sherry A. Suttles, President; Griffin Lotson, Vice President and Treasurer; Four new
board members assumed seats April 1, 2011: Katrina L. Brown, NC
Correspondent, Consultant; Johanna Martin-Carrington, SC
Correspondent, Jenkins Orphanage; Griffin
Lotson, GA Correspondent, Georgia Shouters Manager; Marsha Dean
Phelts, FL Correspondent, American Beach historian/author Barbara Ford Collier, SC Correspondent; and Herb Frazier, Journalist Member. Elders include Vermelle "Bunny" and Andrew Rodrigues (SC); Academic Advisors include Veronica Davis Gerald, Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach (SC), and Sy Murray (GA), Savannah State University. The late Kwame Afoh Pan-African Columnist; will remain honorary. Muima Maat, Alada Shinault-Small, VP Emeritus.
CONTACT US
Sherry A. Suttles 843-277-2664
Barbara Fordham Collier 843-884-9011
Herb Frazier 843-577-4372
Katrina L. Brown 704-560-2149
Johanna Martin-Carrington 843-745-0592
Griffin Lotson 912-571-9014
Marsha Dean Phelts 904-261-0175
DISCLAIMER: The Gullalh/Geechee Group is not responsible for any information or images mis used from this site. All credits and source information is captured to the best of our ability. Positions expressed by guest writers, not GGN writers, are not necessarily those of GGG.
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Haint Blue Jewelry
"Alphonso Brown, a guide with Gullah
Tours in Charleston, S.C., explains that a haint is a spirit or a ghost, and in
Charleston, many people also paint the trim on their houses blue to ward off
evil spirits."
Michelle Norris, "Why so blue? Color Graces a Many Porch Ceiling", npr. Aug. 5, 2011 ( 8/14/2006)
Konstant Elevation Entertainment "Haint Blue"
Links coming to: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
Yaa Asantewa. mother of King Akhenaton whose wife was Nefertiti.
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ADDO DANKWA
III
Oni of Ife
King of Akropong-Akuapem
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