ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...

As a part of the Spoleto Front Row Series, find a performance of songs from “Lowcountry,” a celebration of South Carolina Gullah music, on June 2. Performers pictured: Front row: Joseph Murray, Rosa ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. - More than three decades after translators began putting the words of the New Testament into Gullah, everyone can now hear those words in the Creole language spoken by slaves ...

“A lot of our songs were coded, and this language is a language of survival, a language of resilience, a language of tenacity,” Singleton-Prather said, adding that despite slavery’s brutality, the ...