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Joseph A. Opala, OR (born August 4, 1950) is an American historian noted for establishing the "Gullah Connection," the historical links between the indigenous people of the West African nation of Sierra Leone and the Gullah people of the Low Country region of South Carolina and Georgia in the United States.
Numerous newspaper and magazine articles, documentary films, and children's books on Gullah culture, have been produced, in addition to popular novels set in the Gullah region. In 1991 Julie Dash wrote and directed Daughters of the Dust , the first feature film about the Gullah, set at the turn of the 20th century on St. Helena Island.
It is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to receive a theatrical release in the United States. [2] Set in 1902, the film centers on three generations of Gullah (or Geechee) women from the Peazant family on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, as they prepare to migrate from the rural South to the North.
The world’s largest honky-tonk — where Yellowstone’s Kevin Costner & Modern West and Ryan Bingham have performed — was the setting for Scott Bakula’s character’s fight in Guitar Bar in ...
The new documentary, "God Save Texas: La Frontera," that will debut on HBO, will be shown for free Friday, Feb. 23 at the Plaza Theatre. The film features El Paso and is made by a native El Pasoan ...
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma — another city where Black residents are focused on rejuvenating historically thriving communities — was appointed to the position.
God Save Texas is a 2024 American documentary series, directed by Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa. It is inspired by the book God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright. [1] The series explores the past, present, and future of Texas.
She spent nine years uncovering thousands of once-unseen U.S. State Department documents on the New York couple, who were convicted and executed in the early 1950s for sharing nuclear secrets with ...