Georgia State University, located in Atlanta, Ga, has received a $500,000 Melon Foundation grant that will be used to develop archival, historical, and cultural research to protect the sacred land of the Gullah/Geechee communities living in Georgia and South Carolina. With this funding, researchers plan to institute the Gullah/Geechee Sacred Land Project that will protect the African American burial grounds by “recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors (Ga State). ” In addition to the GGSLP, humanities curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels will be developed for research, heritage preservation, and community engagement for the creation of new knowledge about the history and importance of Back sacred land traditions and the protection of their burial grounds.
I cant wait to see what comes of this scholarship. Congrats to the researchers on this project!
Article Credit: GSU.edu
Cover Image Credit: Sapeloa Island Culture Day, Jennifer Cruise Sanders
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