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Fouché Sheppard, a native Gullah, is an award-winning poet, storyteller and inspirational speaker that brings Gullah culture and history to people around the lowcountry, state and nation.
Theresa Hilliard of Mama Doonk’s Gullah is a retired Equal Employment Opportunity/ Diversity Manager, and author of Mama Doonk’s Gullah Recipes (first and second editions) and A Guide to Charleston’s African American Historical Markers. She is a Gullah storyteller/lecturer, artist in residence, historian, certified tour guide, and past interpreter at the Old Slave Mart Museum. […]
Experience a special evening with Oscar Rivers Jr., Charleston’s 86-year-old jazz patriarch, as he returns to the stage for the first time in a year. Born in 1940 and raised on Richmond Street in downtown Charleston, Rivers graduated from Burke High School in 1957 before establishing a monumental legacy as an educator and virtuoso saxophonist […]
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The Golden Anniversary Celebration will be at 6 p.m. at Hampton Park, produced by Ray Chew and Vivian Scott Chew and featuring Tommy Brown and Zandrina Dunning as well as local food trucks, shaved ice, an artisan village and a wellness village. Among the highlighted albums at the Thursday, October 1 finale are: Stevie Wonder's “Songs in the Key of Life,” Parliament's “Mothership Connection,” Marvin […]
Featuring the fierce and unforgettable solo performer Gary DeWitt Marshall, "Masterpiece in Progress" is a searing tour de force that cuts through myth, memory, and manufactured truth with wit, wisdom, and raw theatrical power. The piece returns in its 2026 incarnation with renewed urgency, resonating deeply in a world where trauma wears a thousand faces […]