In a win for Gullah Geechee residents on Georgia’s sea islands, voters this week rejected an ordinance that doubled the ...

Since 2023, an effort to raise property taxes and displace Black Gullah-Geechee residents has threatened the community's deep ...

Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box.

Voters in Georgia on Tuesday rejected an ordinance to build larger homes on Sapelo Island in a win for the Gullah-Geechee ...

Nearly 85% of voters who cast ballots in a referendum backed Gullah Geechee efforts to halt the construction of large homes ...

A citizen referendum, only the second of its kind in Georgia history, seeks to block a zoning amendment ...

McIntosh County commissioners reversed course after the referendum. They now side with Gullah Geechee residents who want to ...

MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) — It is a big day for McIntosh County and Sapelo Island. Tuesday is a Special Election Day in ...

Supporters of the referendum argued that letting wealthy outsiders build large vacation homes could raise property taxes.

It is an advance to human rights that the story of the Gullah-Geechee people of South Carolina is today being told more often ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Authorities said at least seven people were killed Saturday when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced to ...