Georgia’s highest court is weighing in on a fight over special protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee ...

At stake are voting rights and zoning changes that threaten to lead to displacement of the Gullah Geechee community.

A Sapelo Island community of Gullah-Geechee descendants are awaiting a Georgia Supreme Court decision in long-running rezoning case.

Residents of Sapelo Island's Hogg Hummock community are challenging 2023 zoning amendments that allow larger homes, fearing it will lead to increased property taxes and displacement. The Georgia ...

This Georgia Case Could Decide the Future of Gullah Geechee Land on Sapelo Island Aallyah Wright, Ann Hill Bond and Dante Miller Thu, April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM UTC ...

(AP) — Georgia’s highest court waded Wednesday ... Residents of largely unspoiled Sapelo Island have been trying to roll back zoning changes imposed by McIntosh County officials that doubled ...

It's among a dwindling number of small communities started by emancipated island slaves — known collectively as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia — scattered along the coast from North Carolina to ...