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Many people who were kids during the 1990s will probably remember Nickelodeon's popular children's show, Gullah Gullah Island. Named for the Gullah

RUSHVILLE - The Rushville Chapter DAR met at the home of Priscilla Winkler on Wednesday, Oct. 13.

For $15. >> reporter: and i met her and her husband in 2019 at their restaurant. gullah grub. and gullah communities like theirs are increasingly under threat. every year more low country land is snapped up by buyer, many from out of state during the delinquent tax auctions. when property owners fall behind on their taxes, their land is put up for auction and often sold for less than market value. >> sold $160,000. >> reporter: about 14 million acres of black owned land from south carolina to georgia had been lost since the civil war through tax auctions, fraud, racial violence and family disp...

© Getty Images For more than a century, Gullah-Geechee people have held fast to their land at the water’s edge on the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Descendants of chattel slaves from West Africa, generations of Gullah-Geechee have not only survived, but thrived here — nurturing a distinctive culture with deep ties to the African homeland. Today, the Gullah-Geechee’s hold on the land is loosening. Some threats have been brewing for decades, including the juggernaut of development and a system of property law that is cruelly stacked against them. Now, the rising sea...

A US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech. According to CNN, the provocative and controversial opinion comes as Twitter banned former President Donald Trump from its platform for violating its rules on incitement of violence. Some conservatives have called on more regulations in the tech world to combat what they view as political bias on social media. "If part of the problem is private, concentrated control ov...