The N.C. Public Commission for the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission is to meet 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, during the 2024 North Carolina Rice Festival in Brunswick County.
Djuanna Brockington, an adjunct professor of nonprofit management and fundraising at the University of South Carolina in Beaufort, has been named interim executive director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
The University of South Carolina launched an effort to commemorate the achievements of Black students and professors who desegregated the campus in during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.