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When i startedorking with gullah geechee and promoting, preservingt i said i want it to be taught like any other language. >> um-hum. >> i want to be so fluent in gullah that flish is my second language, yeah. >> you got to think in gullah and translate it back. >> wouldnt that be beautiful. >> yeah. >> i love my culture. >> i can tell. >> i love it. >> i can tell. what was live like growing up here. >> it was different because my father is white and my father is full gullah. my mother and fathe...

Not oem a part of gullah culture but its essential and underexplored part of american history. see its more than 90% likely that every african-american has at least one relative who handed here. while that fact fills me with awe im disgusted by the fact that the people were brought here in the first place. the other thing i knew about this area of the country is the gullah are holding onto culture here. >> its a powerful cultural phenomenon. my great great grandfather was a gullah statementsman ...

The country. i feel like i dont hear a lot about gullah culture out there. tell me, what makes -- what is it? what makes you proud about it? what should people know about it? >> you notice a lot of other places where its a lot of black people its kind of like there is no togetherness. you come here everybody knows each other. and so its kind of like a club. >> this is like black people are the big club and the gullah is the vip room in the black club. >> look at this. >> hey! >> thats nice. that...

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By 2.3 percent excluding bonuses compared with the same period last year however that increase was outstripped by inflation meaning that in real terms wages actually fell by not point 4 percent analysts said the figures showed that the squeeze on living standards was continuing Meanwhile the number of people in work dropped by 56000 compared with the previous quarter or the overall unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3 percent its lowest level since 1905 the Breck says Secretary David Davis ...

With objectionable behaviobehav. when it comes to north korea, theyre not benefiting, not able to import luxury items, items needed to advance nuclear program specifically or money that goes to fuel the nuclear program. its specifically tied to that, and not anything that would affect food or medicine. thats something thats a major caveat for the u.s. government. >> a big difference between the famine you described and the few hundred elite families in north korea whom king jong-un attempts to k...

Good one. scholars have suggested the word "jook" came from the gullah, descendants of enslaved africans, and it meant wicked or disorderly, to dance, or a place of shelter. ♪ jook joints started as plantation community rooms during slavery times. they went on to become the small, private, african-american run bars, clubs, and lounges. first, in rural areas, then in towns and cities. where workers could dance, drink, party, and gamble, as a respite from the hard labor of delta sharecropping, t...

On some of the rural island communities off the coast of charleston, south carolina, many african-americans identify as gullah or geechee. cultures dating back to their ancestors, the slaves. they speak an english-based creole language that can still be heard throughout the region. and inside the sheriff al cannons detention center. >> me being here all my life, i have to sit back and listen. they talk fast. its rumbling or mumbling, but its just the language. and they speak deep. >> the accent ...

Its a new kind of network. xfinity mobile. on some of the rural island communities off the coast of charleston, south carolina, many african-americans identify as gullah or geechee. dating back to their ancestors, the slaves. they speak an english-based creole language that can still be heard throughout the region. and inside the sheriff al cannons detention center. >> me being here all my life, i have to sit back and listen. they talk fast. its rumbling or mumbling, but its just the language....

On some of the rural island communities off the coast of charleston, south carolina, many african-americans identify as gullah or geechee. dating back to their ancestors, the slaves. they speak an english-based creole language that can still be heard throughout the region. and inside the sheriff al cannons detention center. >> me being here all my life, i have to sit back and listen. they talk fast. its rumbling or mumbling, but its just the language. and they speak deep. >> the the accent is so...