Artika Tyner, the founding director of St. Thomas School of Law’s Center on Race, Leadership, and Social Justice, announced she had left the university after her position was eliminated. The university cited fundraising challenges in shuttering the program.
One generation of land loss and displaced cultural traditions is all it takes to put a Gullah/Geechee community’s culture in jeopardy. Glenda Simmons-Jenkins describes the cultural displacement her community experienced after State Road A1A cut through her neighborhood in 1976.