Podcasts about gullah geechee nation

Yeddi bout de celebrations gwine on een de Gullah/Geechee Nation fa May 2024 pun we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) provides a recap of April events and announces major celebrations taking place in the Gullah/Geechee Nation for May.  She will also discuss the up coming Emmy Awards. www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune een fa yeddi "Honoring We Wata een de Gullah/Geechee Nation" with Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) pun we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio.  Queen Quet, will take the listeners on a journey from the Sea Islands that honors the souls of the Sea Islands and the waters that surround them.  Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Yeddi Gullah/Geechee Ooman crak e teet bout de strength of dey ancestas fa Ooman Herstory Month pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio.  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) will be joined by Elder Carlie Towne and Representative Glenda Simmons-Jenkins in a dialogue about the legacy of Gullah/Geechee women and the strength of their foremothers that kept Gullah/Geechee culture alive and passed down the traditions.  Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio as Queen Quetm Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation crak e teet bout Gullah/Geechee fa Black History Month 2024! Tune in as Black History Month 2024 is recapped and the "Gullah/Geechee Volunteer Month 2024" events are announced. Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

In the United States, food insecurity is unevenly distributed. Recent data suggests that white households have nearly a third to one half the food insecurity rate of Black and Hispanic households. While research on the reasons for food insecurity typically focuses on income, a body of research suggests that wealth could be an important factor in food security. According to today's guest, Conner Bailey, professor emeritus of Rural Sociology at Auburn University: "Land is one of the major sources of wealth controlled by Black families in the South, and much of this land continues to be owned as heirs property." Thus, if we want to understand differential food and security, we need to consider that the wealth implications of heirs property. Interview Summary   Connor, recently, the topic of heirs property has attracted much attention from researchers, policymakers, and civil society. Can you briefly describe the phenomenon of heirs property and why you think it's important?   I think of heirs property as, in a phrase, "the legacy of Jim Crow." By that, what I mean is that during the Jim Crow era, imagine say 1880, you're 15 years after the end of the Civil War, and you're a Black farmer, and you've bought some land, are you going to write a will to pass that property down to your heirs? Probably not, because your access to education is pretty limited. Moreover, there are no Black lawyers because where are the Black lawyers going to come from if there's no education for Black people, right? That's the Jim Crow era. So, what's your choice? You're not going to go to the white lawyers for the courthouse gang that you simply don't trust. The whole legal system is something that Black farmers, and Black people generally, fundamentally did not trust. This is the era of lynching after all, when people would be pulled from their homes, and in front of the law, nobody would be able to say who perpetrated these crimes. It was a difficult time for African-Americans, for Black people, for Black farmers generally. They wouldn't write wills because they didn't trust the legal system. What we end up with is that family that bought land in 1880, and they pass on, and the next generation, and the next generation, they're still not writing wills. We know that many people don't have wills. I don't know, Norbert, if you have a will. I don't need to know, but the fact is, many people, white and Black alike, and Hispanic and others, in this country don't have wills. But when they die, they're able to sort things out before it passes on to the next generation and becomes increasingly complex and confused and tangled. That's not true in the case of African-Americans and some other politically marginalized populations, white people in Appalachia, Hispanics, Native Americans, Hawaiians. heirs property is not just a Black phenomenon in the South, though that's where my research and most research on heirs property has been.   What we end up with in the case of the Black South, heirs property is something that is multi-generational. It's not simply dying without a will intestacy, but it's the dying without a will over multiple generations so that you end up with maybe 200 people who own a house or a piece of property, farm, or some forest land. How do you make decisions in a situation like that on maintaining a house, or improving the farmland, or planting trees, or whatever it is you're going to do with that property? How are you going to go to a bank and say, "I want a mortgage"? They're going to say, "Well, how do we know who's got the rights to sign on a mortgage?" As a result, there's no access to commercial credit. Until very recently, and we can come back to this later, Black farmers had no access to government credit programs through the US Department of Agriculture. They could not get credit loans. If you were in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and you were wiped out by hurricane Katrina, you had no access to FEMA support because you did not have clear title. Heirs property is a form legally called Tenancy in Common. That means you don't have clear title. Nobody has clear title. Everybody owns a share of the property as a whole. Now, one of the reasons it's important is it's not a small phenomenon.   Today, based on research that I've done with my colleague Ryan Thompson at Auburn University, there are in the 11 states of Appalachia and the South, 5.4 million acres of heirs property worth something like $43 billion. That's after enormous amounts of land have been lost through predatory actions. Legal but predatory partition sales, tax sales, and the like. Heirs property is a source of vulnerability. People have lost property in large areas. That whole stretch of coast of the South Atlantic, from Myrtle Beach down to Jacksonville, Florida, all that resort land, that was Black-owned land until after World War II. In the 1950s, once malaria was controlled in that area, bridges were built to the Sea Islands, developers followed, and properties were basically stolen through legal means, through something called a partition sale. Now you've got this enormous resorts being built there, much money being made, but these people who have lived there for generations have been dispossessed.   So, why is it important? It's for all these reasons, for these moral reasons, for the impact of the fact that you've still got millions of acres that's tied up in heirs property that people can't develop and utilize effectively for farming or forestry, or even for their own homes. It's one of the main reasons of wealth disparities, as you mentioned at the outset, Norbert. That the wealth disparities between white and Black are enormous. The St. Louis Fed just last month put out a study that showed that for every dollar of wealth that white Americans own, Black Americans own 24%. Black Americans own very much less wealth. Heirs property is one of the reasons. It's not the only reason, but it's one of the reasons, because lands have been stolen, lands have been lost, and those lands that still remain in heirs property, five-plus million acres just in the south of Appalachia, are underdeveloped, underutilized, and under-preserved.   Thank you for that. Connor, I want to ask you a question about trust. It's in the paper, and you mentioned it earlier, this idea of African-American, Black households, Black individuals not trusting the legal system. The reason I want to push on this is one could argue that trust could be because you may not know any better or you don't have enough information. We don't trust strangers because we just don't know what they could do. I'm wondering if another way of looking at this, something I've learned from people who do work on bioethics, Wylin Wilson here at Duke and others have talked about this, about the systems being untrustworthy. It's not that people aren't aware or can't navigate, but rather that the system or the institutions have proven not to do right by individuals. How does that characterization sit with the work that you've been doing?   Well, as I've been working on heirs property, as I have for 15, 16 years now, this phrase, "Black farmers, property owners generally did not trust the legal establishment, didn't trust lawyers, the courthouse gang," that's an easy statement to make. But as I started looking at the literature on heirs property, there wasn't a lot of background to that. I spent several months reading a bunch of older literature, W.E.B. DuBois, Arthur Raper, and others who were documenting what it meant to be Black in the rural south in the early decades of the 20th century. It's very clear to me that Black property owners and Black residents of that region as a whole had very good reasons not to trust the legal system. It was used against them in many cases. People simply avoided going to the courthouse whenever possible.   Now, this is an important point, and so thank you for exploring that with me. I've got to ask, I know you were at Auburn University and you're now retired. What led you to study heirs property and unearth its importance? Why are you still doing this work?   The second question is very easy to answer but also very important. There is a moral quality to the research that is done on heirs property. The work that I'm doing - and others, and I'm not the only one - the work that we are doing has a moral quality to it. We're trying to identify problems and redress wrongs. That's what gets me up in the morning. I mean, I'm seven, eight years, seven and a half years out from retirement. but I'm still publishing on this topic because it's important. Now, how did I come to realizing that? From a very good graduate student of mine named Janice Dyer, who was working in West Alabama on a different project, having nothing to do directly, we thought, at the time, on heirs property. The project was really on small scale wood harvesting and processing so that people could build homes using wood that's on the land that they owned. Janice came back after spending some time out in the field and said, "Hey, there's this thing, heirs property. People don't have clear title to their land." I said, "Oh, okay." I read a little bit about that, but she said, "No, no, this is a really important thing. Pay attention." Okay, Janice, I'm going to pay attention. And you know, here I am 16 years later. I'm still paying attention. One of the reasons professors get better at their jobs, and Norbert, you should appreciate this, is that we work with really bright students over time, and we gain so much from working with these students and undergraduates as well. So, I came to this because a graduate student pulled me into it and said, "Pay attention. This is important."   Thank you for that. I do agree there is something critical about engaging students to understand that topic. I want to actually take that a step further and because I know of some of the other work that you've done, how have you engaged communities in this work? Obviously, this is not an ivory tower kind of issue. This is something that affects the livelihoods of everyday people. How and in what ways are you engaging that community of folks?   I work with people in civil society organizations like the Center for Heirs Property Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina, created by a woman named Jenny Stephens back in the early, I think, 2004 or 2005, and other organizations that represent people who own heirs property. I've been working with people in the legal community through the Uniform Law Commission and all kinds of other groups. It's simply a matter of understanding that what we can do in the ivory tower is important because we can document the extent of heirs property, for example. That doesn't take working with communities, but we need to be working with people in communities affected by heirs property so that we understand the real significance of it and to keep the moral energies flowing. So, for example, my co-author on a couple of recent papers, Ryan Thomson at Auburn, he did his doctoral dissertation with the Gullah Geechee in South Carolina, which is near where Jenny Stephens in the Center for Heirs Property Preservation is located. Ryan worked actually far more closely with people who were heirs property owners and organized around that issue than I have done. But it's really important to understand from the people who are living the life of heirs property owners and who are facing the struggles to understand what are the issues so that as researchers, we can try to address those issues and try to come up with policy recommendations that might be helpful.   Thank you. One of your recent publications titled, "Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations," recently won the annual Rural Sociological Society's Best Paper of the Year award. First, congratulations, but secondly, can you explain your approach and your findings.   As I was saying earlier, I was looking at the question of trust, the trust of Black property owners and Black residents of the South to the legal system. As I was reading that literature, the idea of critical race theory simply emerged into my consciousness. I did not start off my reading saying, "Okay, I'm going to go look for evidence that's going to show critical race theory." Rather, it kind of emerged because critical race theory talks about the longstanding, deep institutional patterns of discrimination that are built into our legal system, our cultural system, our educational systems. They are so deeply ingrained that we often don't even recognize them, or we consciously, sometimes, ignore them. But there are discriminations built deeply into our systems sometimes that we don't recognize. What heirs property represents, as I said at the very outset, the legacy of Jim Crow. The legacy of Jim Crow is all these institutional limitations placed on Blacks in terms of access to education, legal services, and commercial loans, insurance for their properties, redlining in cities of where you could get government assistance or not. All these things are built in and are deeply embedded. Even though we have removed many of the outward mechanisms and trappings of racial discrimination, these patterns are still there. To speak of heirs property in terms of critical race theory simply made sense. It emerged the realization in my mind that this phenomenon of heirs property is rooted in these institutional relationships. It sort of hit me between the eyes with a two-by-four. It was like, wow, this is a perfect use of a theory to help explain a phenomenon. That's what academics, we should be pretty good at that, but that's what I've basically done. I don't think of myself as a theoretician, but the theories help us understand here are the key variables, the key phenomenon that we need to focus on if we're going to understand that particular phenomenon.   The question of reparations, which is the last term in that title, refers specifically to the Gullah Geechee, and I was talking about earlier, about that stretch of land. It's now billion dollar resorts. It's unrealistic to think that anybody's going to come and take that land away from Hilton and Sheraton, and all these major corporations, and give it back to the Gullah Geechee. That's just not realistic. But what if we charged a 1% lodging tax? There are already people coming and using those resorts who are already paying six and 7% on top of their bill for police and fire protection and things for the local counties and municipalities. What if we added 1% and gave that to the Gullah Geechee? There's a couple of entities, and I believe to others to make that decision. Who? But there's the Gullah Geechee Nation, and there's also a federally mandated Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. It's a 501 organization. Monies from that could be utilized to support the Gullah Geechee in clearing title for their remaining heirs property or for buying new properties to replace those that have been stolen, legally, but still stolen. So, to support the subsistence fishing and farming activities that have supported the Gullah Geechee for many, many generations, stating back to the post-Civil War era.   Thank you for that. This is going to really move us into this last question that's connecting this idea of, and I appreciate how you talked about how theory can help us as researchers do the work that we do, but then there are implications of that theory to actual policy and the lived experiences of folks. My question is, how has the research that you and others have done on heirs property affected policy at the local state or even federal levels?   As I said, there's a large number of researchers and others working on heirs property. I want to give a shout out to a couple of organizations that have been really critically important. The Southern Rural Development Center based at Mississippi State has become a really important convener of a lot of us working in this heirs property space. We have regular monthly Zoom calls. We have subcommittees on research, on policy, and on education and extension that meet regularly. There's a policy center at Alcorn State University that has become very important in helping organize and support research on heirs property. There's the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta that has also served as a convener and bringing people together. So, we've got individuals. We've also got some really important institutional actors that are providing continuity for those of us who are wanting to find a mechanism to interact, but they're providing that mechanism. There's a lot of people working on the question of heirs properties becoming increasingly visible not only in the research space but also among policy makers. For example, in the 2018 Farm Bill, there was wording introduced and passed in the 2018 Farm Bill, that allowed heirs property owners who were farming land to gain access to what's called a farm number through the Farm Service Agency. The farm number is critical, because if you have a farm number, you can now get a loan from USDA. Before that, heirs property owners could not. Basically, farmers operating heirs property now for the first time have access to credit through the USDA. That's a very important step forward. It actually came from a South Carolina Republican Senator Scott, and an Alabama Democrat Doug Jones, who worked up the wording on this, and it got later placed into the Farm Bill.   The other thing that's happened is that FEMA, I mentioned Katrina earlier, FEMA has revised their policies so that now, if you can prove you've lived in that home, you've lived on that property, you've paid property taxes, you've got maybe home insurance or whatever, if your property is damaged, destroyed in a natural disaster, a storm, FEMA will now help you. But 10 years ago, that was not the case. This happened only in the last couple of years. The point is, people have started to pay attention to heirs property. I've got to say people working in the media like Politico and The Atlantic and the New York Times, and The Washington Post, they've picked up on this. They've called researchers. They've called people like me and colleague Ryan, and they've gotten the facts from us, and they've developed it. They've gone and interviewed people, and they've developed the stories. And the media has also drawn a lot of attention to the issues associated with heirs property. It's been kind of a full-court press. We've all been moving forward on this.     Bio   Conner Bailey is an emeritus professor of the Department of Agricultural and Rural Sociology in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University. He holds a Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University. His research has focused on the problems of persistent poverty associated with resource dependence, the emergency of grassroots environmental movement surrounding issues of environmental and natural resource management, issues of environmental justice, and the human dimensions of fisheries and coastal resource systems. Bailey has been working on the issues of heirs property for more than 20 years. His publication "Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations," recently won the annual Rural Sociological Society's Best Paper of the Year award.

Tune een fa yeddi Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) broadcast live frum de Gullah/Geechee Nation fa "Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2023!"  Yeddi wa gwine on and support! Disya we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) returns to Gullah/Geeche Riddim Radio for the annual State of the Gullah/Geechee Nation address.  She will present "Gullah/Geechee 2023: Freedom Still Ain't Free."  This radio broadcast is the continuation of the Gullah/Geechee Nation Facebook live message that was done on the 23rd Anniversary of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.   Tune een fa yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

For the Gullah/Geechee people, fishing is culture. Everything comes back to "making a circle", shares Queen Quet, chieftess and head-of-state of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, from throwing a circular cast net out into the ocean, to bringing balance and harmony back to the natural environment, and passing down cultural traditions to the next generation. Tune in for a conversation between Host and Producer Sarah Shimazaki and Queen Quet! The Gullah/Geechee Nation encompasses over 100 sea islands along the Atlantic coast and about 30 miles inland. The Gullah/Geechee are descendents of enslaved people from West Africa and have largely been able to preserve their traditions, including fishing, which they depend on for their livelihood. October 22nd marks the Gullah/Geechee Seafood Festival. Bring family and friends to enjoy the Gullah/Geechee presentations, cuisine, and crafts along the shoreline at the Hunting Island Nature Center! Untangling is a three-part Outside Voices mini-series exploring our cultural connections to fishing, created in partnership with our friends at Take Me Fishing.  Hosted and produced by Sarah ShimazakiSound edited by Jeff Alvarez Album artwork by Ezra Manjarrez A production of Resource Media, with support from Pisces Foundation Follow us on Instagram: @OutsideVoicesPodcast Please support our podcast by leaving us a review: RateThisPodcast.com/outsidevoices

Tune een fa yeddi Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation and hostess of "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio" recap "Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2022."  From de proclamations ta Gullah/Geechee Famlee Day ta a powerfilled "Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival, all disya bin bless up! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Our Replay and Horror Story today are about a new roofing job that turned into a big, avoidable problem. A new roof gone bad, can be one of the biggest home improvement hassles a homeowner can face. Then, Cameron Jaggard from the PEW Charitable Trusts explains how PEW is involved in a huge and vital mission by military and civilian organizations, including the Gullah Geechee Nation (descendants of slaves), to rescue 1,000,000 acres of salt marsh from North Carolina to the east coast of northern Florida. Salt marsh has been proved to be an effective line of defense against rising seas...a protector of property, even jobs! If you have coastal property and/or concern about global warming, you'll want to listen and pass this on.

Tune een fa de Gullah/Geechee Financial Literacy Month: Foundation for a Black Wealth Legacy dialogue between Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) and Felicia Gomes-Gregory of Heels in Higher Achievement.  April is Fiancial Literacy Month.  Annually Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio commemorates the month by sharing wealth bulding principles and financial knowledge for the African Diasporic family.  Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

April is Financial Literacy Month.  Annually, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) has dialogues about the month and provides critical financial information.  Tune in to "A Legacy of Wealth: Gullah/Geechee Land Legacy & Financial Literacy" on Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio.  Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Yeddi frum de Weeping Time ta Gullah/Geechee Healin Time pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio as hostess Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) recaps the March 2022 journey.  Queen Quet will discuss the links and connections from ancestral commemorations to the healing energy of the Gullah/Geechee Herbal Gathering.  Tune een fa yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune in to the Women's Herstory Month 2022 broadcast from "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio" entitled "Women's Herstory Month: Honoring Women on the Islands of the Gullah/Geechee."  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation will share on the history of "Women's Herstory Month" and "Black Herstory Month" while reflecting on the honoring of women in the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Yeddi "Fa Mama dem een de Gullah/Geechee Nation" frum "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio" as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation closes out "Black History Month" and opens "Women's / Black Herstory Month" 2022.  Queen Quet shares the stories of the journey of self-determination led by the Gullah/Geechee women that have been traditions keepers and movement leaders.   Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com  

Yeddi "Resistance and Rebellion: De Gullah/Geechee Legacy" pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!  Tune in to this Black History Month edition as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) takes the listeners on a journey through the resistance and rebellion in the Gullah/Geechee Nation from Gullah Jack to self-determination.   Disya we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune in to this special Valentine's Day Black History Month edition of Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio as hostess, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) presents "Gullah/Geechee Love." Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Yeddi wha gwine on een de Gullah/Geechee Nation fa Black History Month 2022 pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!  Hostess Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) will share the calendar of February 2022 calendar of events for the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  She will also reflect on why this is a historic date for her and the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeLand.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune in as Lynette Nelson o "Perspective" Interviews Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  This broadcast aired on the WTUA Gospel Station in the Gullah/Geechee Nation and is now being brought to the airwaves of Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio. www.QueenQuet.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune een ta de 5th Gullah/Geechee Virtual Praise House as Rev.Michael Malcom delivers the sermon "Remember, Remind & Resist." Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, Representative Glenda Simmons-Jenkins and the Moving Star Hall open de spiritual gatherin. A Gullah Roots Production™ 2021 All Rights Reserved. www.QueenQuet.com www.GullahGeecheeLand.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Cum een ta De Gullah/Geechee Virtual Praise House 4 and yeddi Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation deliver de message "Ya Can't Seek if Ya Can't See." A Gullah Roots Production @2021 All Rights Reserved "Sign of the Judgement" by Macintosh County Shouters www.GullahGeechee.net www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Jayn Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation, Representative Glenda Simmons-Jenkins, and Elder Marcus W. Hines Sr. een de Gullah/Geechee Virtual Praise House fa yedd "When We Say Yes, GAWD'll do de Rest!" A Gullah Roots Production™ ©2021 All Rights Reserved. Esau Jenkins at de Moving Star Hall opens de praise house wit "Dat Ole Time Religion." www.QueenQuet.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune een fa yeddi Elder Marcus Hines Sr. deliver de message frum down by de riba een de Gullah/Geechee Nation. E jayn pun de sho by Queen Quet, Chieftess and Representative Glenda Simmons-Jenkins of de Gullah/Geechee Nation. E a time een de Gullah/Geechee Virtual Praise House! A Gullah Roots Production™ ©2021 All Rights Reserved. Music by frum Johns Island Moving Star Hall www.QueenQuet.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Disya da de fuss episode of de Gullah/Geechee Virtual Praise House. Pun disya Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation shares bout de legacy of de Black church, The Spirituals and freedom. Study! Tune een fa disya special "Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Awareness Month" edition of we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.QueenQuet.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com  

There's a power within Black people. One that, through colonialism and westernization, through space and time, has perennially lived at our core: West African spirituality. The problem? Most of us don't know how deeply embedded it is in all of our religious and spiritual practices. Today on BHY, we're excavating those parts buried deep within. Guiding us to that reconnection is award-winning "Art-ivist" Queen Quet, who, through her organization, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, advocates for the preservation of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and knows all too well how the motherland's spirit still lives in Black Americans. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com​. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes: Tareq Alani, Patrick Sanders, Leslie Taylor-Grover, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shiavon Chapman, Tabitha Jacobs, Abeni Jones, Briona Lamback, Courtney Morgan, Zain Murdock, Akua Tay, Tasha Taylor, and Darren Wallace. Producing the podcast we have Cydney Smith, who performs our narrative pieces, and Sasha Kai Parker, who also edits the show. Black History Year's executive producer is Julian Walker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tune een fa yeddi wha gwine on fa "Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Awareness Month 2021!"  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) gwine crak e teet bout what gwine on fa October tru de Gullah/Geechee Nation and virtually.  Cum make sho hunnuh yeddi and celebrate wit we! Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune in to Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation discusses global insecurity and global poverty and how nations of the world are focusing on these matters via the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals while trying to sustain themselves in the midst of the pandemic and multiple crises.  The Gullah/Geechee Nation is in a hurricane zone and is consistently seeking ways to protect food security and end energy poverty while holding onto ancestral lands.   Tune in to hear some reflections on all that is taken place in the world from the eyes of a Gullah/Geechee. www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) gwine crak e teet bout Gullah/Geechee resiliency and energy pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio.  Tune in to learn more about how you can engage in the climate action efforts underway in the Gullah/Geechee Nation and how to participate in Gullah/Geechee Energy Day.   Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Queen Quet, originally aired in November of 2018. The Anthropocene tells the story of compounding injustice towards people and planet. It tells the story of growth for growth's sake, living beyond boundaries sacredly assigned to us. In this episode, we are honored to be in dialogue with Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation, who is striving for justice on the front lines of the most pressing Anthropocentric intersections: climate change, resource extraction, corrupt and negligent government bodies, encroaching development, and exploitative tourism. Queen Quet, Marquetta L. Good-wine is a published author, computer scientist, lecturer, mathematician, historian, columnist, preservationist, environmental justice advocate, film consultant, and “The Art-ivist.” Queen Quet was selected, elected, and enstooled by her people to be the first Queen Mother, “head pun de bodee,” and official spokesperson for the Gullah/Geechee Nation. She is the founder of the premiere advocacy organization for the continuation of Gullah/Geechee culture, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition. Music by The Gullah Singers - Live recordings from Gullah/Geechee TV Nayshun Nyews with Queen Quet and The Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

Tune een fa yeddi Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio as Queen Quet crak e teet bout celebratin 21 years!  Queen Quet gwine tak bout de cumin events and ting as we gwine ta de "Gullah/Geechee Nation Apprecation Week" fa 2021.  Plenee ting gwine on fa de Gullah/Geechee Famlee.  Yeddi we sho-GullahGeechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

For decades Juneteenth and Emancipation have been celebrated in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  Now that United States President Biden has signed a law designating "Juneteenth" as a United States national holiday, there is now more amplification to the issue of reparations.  Tune in to hear some reflections on the Juneteenth Weekend of 2021 and why de Gullah/Geechee Nation is still beating the drum for freedom.  Disya ting ain dun dun! Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.QueenQuet.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

On the CBS News Weekend Roundup with host Allison Keyes, June 19, 1865, enslaved Blacks in Texas learned they were free...two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. More than 150-years later, President Biden declared what is now called Juneteenth, a federal holiday. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who has long supported the legislation, held the gavel that officially declared the passage, joins Allison to tell us how she's feeling. As we commemorate Juneteenth, we wondered what it was like for Black people immediately after the end of slavery. Allison asked University of Maryland history professor Christopher Bonner. Allison also speaks with Queen Quet, the head of the Gullah-Geechee Nation, which includes people from numerous African ethnic groups linked with indigenous Americans. She explains why Juneteenth holds a special meaning for her people. Rev. John L-C Mosley Sr., who convened a meeting of activists to work for greater national recognition of Juneteenth in 1997, shares his thoughts with Allison about Congress' passage of the bill. In 2016, 94-year-old Texas native, Opal Lee started "Opal's Walk to DC Campaign," to fight to make Juneteenth a national holiday. On the Kaleidoscope, Allison speaks with the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" about her new project, and how she got started with her activism. Despite the historic bill, not everyone supports making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Allison speaks with Marie Fischer, a member of the conservative Black group, Project 21. Finally, ten Black museums joined forces for a BlackFreedom.org virtual event, to commemorate the holiday with themed programs ranging from tenacity to liberty to joy. At the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Noelle Trent joins Allison to discuss its special Juneteenth programming for young people.

The day slavery ended in the United States is now recognized as a federal holiday. In this episode of Let's Talk, Carolyn Murray speaks with Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah Geechee nation – author, historian, preservationist, and environmental justice advocate. This episode features music from the McIntosh County Shouters, a Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia (Courtesy of The Library of Congress).

Jayn de Gullah/Geechee Famlee as we flo een ta Ocean Month and de UN Ocean Decade.  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) will discuss the events taking place during Ocean Month as well as Juneteenth activities that will take place throughout the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  Tune een and yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio. www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune een fa yeddi wha gwine on een de Gullah/Geechee Nation fa May 2021 and how hunnuh kin jayn we.  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) returns to the airwaves of Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio to give out the details on several events happening in the Gullah/Geechee Nation in May 2021.  Yeddi disya and cum fa jayn we. Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

In this podcast Eden Royce talks about Root Magic, southern gothic horror, the Gullah-Geechee nation, and much more. About Eden Royce Eden Royce is from Charleston, South Carolina and is a member of the Gullah-Geechee nation. Her work has appeared in various print and online publications and she is the recipient of the Speculative Literature … Continue reading

On Queen Quet Day 2021, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) found herself faced with a continued obligation instead of a celebration-saving Gullah/Geechee sacred sites.  She posted a video on Facebook that went viral in one day.  It has not garnered close to half a million views.  This came while the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition was also standing with the Westside Savannah Gullah/Geechee Famlee to protect The Weeping Time Historic Site.    On Sunday, April 25, 2021, Queen Quet, Dr. Amir Toure, and Representative Anita Collins stood together with the Gullah/Geechee Famlee of Savannah, GA to launch the "Saving Gullah/Geechee Land Caravan."  Tune een fa yeddi how hunnuh kin jayn we fa de Saving Gullah/Geechee Land Caravan!   Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeechee.net www.GullahGeecheeLand.com www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

A Gullah/Geechee burial area was desecrated.  Tune in to hear this update on protecting sacred land in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) and Founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition (www.GullahGeechee.net) discusses the current legal battles to protect Gullah/Geechee sacred burial areas and historic land from South Carolina to Florida.  The Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition currently has numerous court cases under way and is still fighting at the international level to protect the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  Tune in to learn more especially how you can get involved. Disy da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune een fa yeddi Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) crak e teet bout human rights and de justice journey.  On April 1, 1999, Queen Quet became the first Gullah/Geechee in world history to speak before the United Nations Human Rights Commission on behalf of Gullah/Geechee people.  Since then, she has continued to be an honored guest and speaker at numerous human rights conferences and her expertise in international human rights laws has assisted the Gullah/Geechee Nation's citizens in numerous land rights and sacred ground cases.  Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio. www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

In this episode of the African American Folklorist, I speak to Elder Carlie Towne, Minister of Information for the Gullah Geechee Nation. www.gullahgeecheenation.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010350254804 To support the African American Folklorist Newspaper and Channel PayPal.me/LamontJack Join our Patreon with a paid subscription for original docs and series https://www.patreon.com/jackdappabluesheritage And if you want a healthy alternative to a regular coffee or our super reds products, link below https://lamontjackpearley.itworks.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackdappabluespodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jackdappabluespodcast/support

Tune een fa de celebration of World Water Day pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio.  Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) gwine crak e teet bout "De Wata Bring We: World Water Day @GullahGeechee."  Queen Quet will discuss the history of this international day and how it is celebrated the Gullah/Geechee way. Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Tune een fa "Women's Herstory" pun Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio and yeddi Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) crakin e teet bout "Gullah/Geechee Ooman Celebratin Who WEBE."  Yeddi wha gwine on fa de ress of disya celebration een de Gullah/Geechee Nation. Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

Gullah/Geechee Land Issues and Fundraising The Gullah/Geechee Nation exist from Jacksonville, NC to Jacksonville, FL.  It encompasses all of the Sea Islands and thirty to thirty-five miles inland to the St. John's River.  On these islands, people from numerous African ethnic groups linked with indigenous Americans and created the unique Gullah language and traditions from which later came “Geechee.”   The Gullah/Geechee people have been considered “a nation within a nation” from the time of chattel enslavement in the United States until they officially became an internationally recognized nation on July 2, 2000.   At the time of their declaration as a nation, they confirmed the election of their first “head pun de boddee”-head of state and official spokesperson and queen mother.  They elected Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com). Hoodoo New Orleans Voodoo Secrets and Recipes  My website, where I can be reached utilizing various means almost 24/hrs a day 7 days a week and 365 days a year, operating in 360 degrees of power and understanding: http://www.HouseoftheDivinePrince.com/  Voodoo Chief Divine Prince Ty Emmecca on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/VoodooTye 

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Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) is the host of "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio" which is sponsored by the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition (www.gullahgeechee.net).   Queen Quet will discuss the legacy left by Tunis Campbell on the Golden Isles of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and the upcoming Tunis Campbell Celebration. Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!

Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.queenquet.com) is the host of "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio."  On this episode, she will discuss the Black History/African Heritage Month celebrations in the Gullah/Geechee Nation and will interview founders of the Gullah/Geechee Angel Network and the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Committee of Northeast Florida.  These organizations along with the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition have worked to insure the living legacy of the Gullah/Geechee story.  Tune in and learn how you can support their on-going efforts not just for February, but forever!   Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!

On this episode of Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) will have an interactive dialogue with the family in New Orleans as they prepared to reconnect in Congo Square to celebrate another 100 years of the African ancestral spirits there.  The "Gullah/Geechee Gwine Bak Conference" will be held March 23-25, 2012 In New Orleans at the Golden Feather and in Congo Square.  Tune in to the broadcast an lun why hunnuh hafa be dey! Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! Sponsored by the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition (www.gullahgeechee.net)

Tune in as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation interviews the filmmaker of "Wilmington on Fire," a documentary that tells the horrific and terroristic story of what took place in Wilmington, NC that still has some terrified until this day.  Tune in to learn more of this aspect of ourstory in the Gullah/Geechee Nation and learn the part that you can play in making sure that this film comes to the big screen! Disya da we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!

Tune in as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) interviews native of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and owner and therapist of "Soulful Touch Wellness," Khetnu Nefer.  On this episode of "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio" which is sponsored by the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition (www.gullahgeechee.net) holistic health and its roots in Gullah/Geechee culture will be the focus.  Khetnu Nefer will discuss the additional ancient practices that you she provides with a soulful touch. Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!

Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) is the host of "Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio" on behalf of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition (www.gullahgeechee.net).   Queen Quet presents a special broadcast honoring the work that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King did on the Sea Islands of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and beyond and how this relates to the rights of Gullah/Geechees.  Tune een an yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio!