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Axomamma

"One of the earliest records of “Kumbaya” in the AFC archive is in a manuscript sent to Robert Winslow Gordon, the Archive’s founder, in 1927."

Fascinating! Please do go read the whole thing.

#BlackHistory #Kumbaya #FolkMusic #Gullah #GullahGeechee

blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2018/02

The Library of CongressKumbaya: History of an Old Song | Folklife TodayIn honor of African American History Month, we thought we’d present a classic article from Folklife Center News. This one concerns the early history of the African American spiritual “Kumbaya,” also known by other titles such as “Kum Ba Yah,” “Come By Yuh,” and “Come By Here.”  In the years since this article was first published, …
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Glyn Moody

‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive - theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/ "Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach #Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard" good to see #linguistics

The Guardian · ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans aliveBy Adria R Walker
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CharlioSpaceCadet

#Gullah #Geechee lesson on what our flag means

Black is for the #African people

The black inverted triangle symbolize self-determination

The Haint Blue is a #hoodoo #rootwork color of protection from bad spirits #Haints are bad spirits so #HaintBlue protects us from them

Green is for Land

Gold represents the Sun

The #rice crop represents our ancestors agricultural knowledge

Crab represents Unity, Loyalty and Self Sufficiency

Spears represent the #GullahWars

Image of Gullah Geechee Diaspora Flag. The top of the is black, middle is haint blue, and the bottom is green. The top black portion cuts thru the middle of the haint blue and green portions of the flag in an inverted triangle shape. In the middle of the flag in gold in a pair of spears with a crab shell on top of the spears. To the left and right of the crab and spears is a rice crop arching around both sides.
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CharlioSpaceCadet

Posting a Instagram video by Africa Stream. #Charleston #Black & #Geechee organizers interviewed bout dat buckra #Biden using Mother Emmanuel #AME church as a campaign site.

Nah ya ain't doin this. You ain't stepping into a church where Our #Gullah #Geechee people were massacred while you fund and arm #Isreal so they can genocide the #Palestinian people nah bubba.

Shame on our elders for letting #GenocideJoe use our peoples blood as a shield for imperialism!

instagram.com/reel/C2ISbHjoTBu

Instagram African Stream on Instagram: "BIDEN’S CHURCH VISIT RILES AFRICANS The oldest African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in the US South has become the site of a battle over conduct, morals, and US imperialism after US President Joe Biden recently took the pulpit at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, in the US state of South Carolina. This comes as the 2024 US presidential election season heats up. Biden is the presumed Democratic Party nominee and South Carolina is an important state in which to win a majority of votes come November. African Stream’s Salifu Mack reports that while many argue the church should be off limits for political protests, young people refuse to allow the site—with its revolutionary history—to be used to further US imperialism. What do you think? Let us know in the comments. #AME #USA #Morals #Imperialism #JoeBiden #SouthCarolina"7,781 likes, 273 comments - african_stream on January 15, 2024: "BIDEN’S CHURCH VISIT RILES AFRICANS The oldest African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in the..."
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MidsouthMouth.OctaviaKeats

Professor Sunn m'Cheaux calls out country music's personal connection for fans for its lyrics + reclaims it from white folks deep in their racism who think they can carve away everyone else's music appreciation + history.

youtube.com/shorts/RpatRkvZCdA

#CountryMusic
#Americana
#Southern
#Gullah
#Geechee
#BlackDiaspora
#BlackAtlantic
#BlackMastodon
#Culture
#Boots
#Roots
#Demographics
#Class

YouTubeY'all: "Just Say You Hate Country Music! 🤬" Me: 🤠By Sunn m'Cheaux
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wednesday the valkyrja

i am curious about any shared characteristics or practices we have. i am from South Carolina and so is 3/4ths of my family, and the other 1/4 of my family is from from Florida. i don't know them too well due to deaths, but they look like me and also integrate spanish among other things

we (#Gullah and #Seminole) had a settlement in Florida.
we have intermixed but idk how to feel totally because some of us were kept as slaves by the Seminole. we have mixed history, good and bad

#BlackMastodon
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wednesday the valkyrja

is anyone here #seminole #indigenous . i am #Gullah #Geechee and our people have a tied history.

for example we fought a war against white settler colonialists as allies in the Gullah Wars that took place in #SouthCarolina and #Florida (you may know the Florida half of it as the "#SeminoleWars")

more here:
twitter.com/geecheesociali1/st

my friend @CharlioSpaceCadet wrote it. it is on twitter though.

there is not a lot of free information available on it from the Gullah pov ime.

TwitterGeecheeIdentityExtremist on Twitter“(1) Brief summary of Gullah Wars aka Seminole Wars Starting with the Gullah-Geechee people who escaped plantations in SC & Ga some of which made it down into the FL peninsula. The spanish colonizers used FL as a buffer from the British colonies-”
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