Members of the Gullah Geechee community in South Carolina are fighting to protect their island home from climate change, gentrification, and development. | TAG24
Ed Atkins holds a basket filled with small, wriggling shrimp, fresh examples of the catch that the African-American fisherman has drawn from the waters off South Carolina's Saint Helena Island for more than 60 years.Atkins fears his neighbors will move away because they return home from sea empty-handed, and that one day his beloved Saint Helena Island could become a "ghost town."
ATLANTIC BEACH, S.C. - South Ocean Boulevard is a thin road that runs parallel to the beach on South Carolina's Grand Strand. It stretches eight miles across the coveted coast of North Myrtle Beach, then stops abruptly at 28th Avenue. Here, across a narrow strip of undeveloped land, is where Atlantic Beach starts - one of the few Black-owned beach towns in the United States. From an aerial view, Atlantic Beach is a 92-acre cut out in North Myrtle Beach; an interruption in the coastline. The town