'I Gullah Geechee, too': the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

Sunn m'Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard In 2019, Akua Page was invited to a juvenile incarceration facility in Richland county, South Carolina, to give a presentation about the Gullah Geechee language, an English-based creole created by enslaved Africans. When the teens walked into the room, Page recalled, they seemed hardened, angry and annoyed. Undeterred, she began her lesson. "I told them: 'Hey, I understand y'all are Gu...