For three years running, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, our attorneys from the South Carolina Environmental Law Project, the Coastal Conservation League, Penn Center and a cadre of additional partners have continued to stand up to Protect St. Helena Island. This year, two of our fighters that understood that we are warring against spiritual wickedness in high and low places crossed over into the realm of the ancestors. The first one that made his crossing was Rev. Kenneth Hodges of the "Gullah/Geechee Visitors Center" who pastored Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, SC where we unveiled the Harriet Tubman Monument. We stood together many times on each of these things and in each of these places. His words live on as he speaks from the grave concerning the St. Helena Island Cultural Protection Overlay District.

Read the entire article here: https://gullahgeecheenation.com/2025/09/01/gullah-geechee-ancestral-voices-speak-to-protect-st-helena-island-from-destructionment/

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Continue advocating for the CPO and against gated golf resorts on St. Helena Island. Attend meetings and urge Beaufort County to hold the line and protect St. Helena into the future.

Join us at the

NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE MEETING

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND @ 3PM

104 RIBAUT RD in BEAUFORT, SC

and at the BEAUFORT COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND @ 6PM

905 BUCKWALTER PKWY in BLUFFTON, SC