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Family Across the Sea is "Roots" - retold as an historical and linguistic detective story. It traces how scholars have uncovered the connection between the Gullah people of South Carolina's Sea Islands and the people of Sierra Leone.
Family Across the Sea demonstrates how AfricanAmericans kept their ties with their homeland over centuries of oppression through their speech, songs and customs. In the 1930s a pioneering black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, discovered over 3000 words of African origin in the Gullah dialect. The film's conclusion, the moving return of a Gullah delegation to Sierra Leone and the African "family" they hadn't realized they had, becomes a homecoming for all African Americans.
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minutes. in the meantime let s find out what is happening here today. let s check in with tony perkins and see what is going on out there. a cold start to the day. going to be a cold day. certainly colder than yesterday when we saw our temperatures climbing to the 50s and even in the 60s down to the south. let s take a look at your weather headlines. sunny skies today. we have clouds out there now. mostly cloudy skies at reagan national. but sunshine will break out. cold, breezy today. taz a deaf that s a definite. winds gusting to around 25 miles per hour. could be a wintry mix for a period of time before changing to rain after saturday. it does look like the mix of freezing rain, sleet and then rain. temperatures across the region. in the district we re at 31. 27 in baltimore. frederick and dulles and harrisonburg. morning clouds give way to more sunshine. mostly sunny today but our highs only in the mid 30s and it will be windy. that s a look at the weather. now here