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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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. (AP) — 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 ...