but now there's a great pride in gullah geechee.one or you? that's you. i don't know how i know that. i think it's because it's just in me. i was getting pretty good at the language, but there's one gullah geechee tradition i was hungry to learn. all right, what have we got to do? teach me teach me about the-- low. low. country. boil. how long has this recipe been around? this recipe been around since before i was born because they brought it from africa. they brought it from africa. africa over here. you think the people that was enslaved was cooking this? oh, yeah. they live off of the river with the oysters and crabs and the shrimp. phillip calvert: drop. drop. hanif hayes: don't burn yourself. i ain't burning myself. all right. i'm going to need somebody to hold that pan for me. ok? phillip calvert: i got the pan. i'm holding it. oh, i smell it. hanif hayes: there you go. you know what to do. i'm teaching you right. you know the things. you teaching me. choir: (singing) hey, uh, hey, uh, hey, uh. i have this is a lot of low, low

i am a gullah geechee girl for from hollywood south. and it is an honor to be here today. i am a child of god, a daughter of the divine and my chosen savior is jesus christ. freedom o, freedom, freedom over me. and before i'll be a slave, i'll be buried yonder grave and go home to my lord and be free freedom the epitome, the faith of our mothers and fathers beckoned to the balconies of heaven thatfighters, us who endh dew of their morning after weeping through the nights of terror and torment, yet freedom now sometimes faint freedom faith is loud and clear freedom to freedom to serve freedom to love, freedom to live when others say die because this freedom from us sky beyond the chaos and clutter of classism, racism, sex ism, and even whose sleeping with who ism there freedom this space, this place, this long awaited vision now manifested right before our retinas, no cataracts today retinas we might retain the sights and sounds of freedom, this haven of humanity is the sanctuary of solace, this retreat of righteousness this edifice of education in this traverse for transfo

so many those things, understanding the african roots of you talk about the gullah and the geechee that we talk about the the sort of religious traditions and stuff like that that's in that comes out of new orleans. i talk about you talk about jazz. i about blues, talk about cooking and relationship to african traditions of food and feeding and that understanding that part of the south means that a lot of the thing that we think of that are actually interesting about the south that are actually beautiful the south actually come from the african part of the south and that that tradition is is lost the way in which that was spoken of before we get our accents from where southerners their accents from it used to be told as somehow there was this english that was carried on in the chesapeake and we understand that it's an african kind of melding african and european traditions make much of the language that we talk about and also music is has this african american roots has native american roots. and that it's a richer south. it's south that we actually admire the south, that actually, like