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

Voters in one Georgia county have overwhelmingly supported a measure intending to protect a historic Black community from ...

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

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

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

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

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county will decide Tuesday whether large homes should be allowed on remote ...

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

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

Tuesday, McIntosh County voters will cast ballots in a special election that could reshape the future of Hog Hammock on ...

An opportunity arose when University of Georgia (UGA) Associate Professor Elizabeth King spearheaded a UGA Sea Grant project ...

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 ...