Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sticker saying "Keep Sapelo Geechee" is worn on someone's shirt at a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners last year in ...

The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor is coastal land that spans from southern North Carolina to Northern Florida. Georgia State University has received a $500,000 grant to support research and ...

ATLANTA — Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia State University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to launch the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land ...

DARIEN, Ga. — Black landowners from a tiny island community returned to a Georgia courtroom Friday urging a judge to let them move forward with a lawsuit that accuses local officials of illegally ...

The ruling overturns a lower court’s decision blocking the Gullah-Geechee community from opposing McIntosh County. The Gullah-Geechee community in Georgia is celebrating after the state’s Supreme ...

2 days after voters repealed a controversial 2023 zoning change by referendum, commissioners push for rules to limit development on Georgia barrier island. A house stands in the Hogg Hummock community ...

The Legal Defense Fund says that the Hilton Head Gullah Geechee community is being shut out of key land talks that could ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county will decide Tuesday whether large homes should be allowed on remote Sapelo Island, where Black landowners fear the change could saddle them with ...

Voters in McIntosh County, which is predominantly white, voted 85% in favor of the referendum to deny the construction of large homes on Sapelo Island. As gentrification continues to seep deeper into ...