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

Nearly 85% of voters who cast ballots in a referendum backed Gullah Geechee efforts to halt the construction of large homes on Georgia's Sapelo Island.

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

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

Voters in McIntosh County, which is predominantly white, voted 85% in favor of the referendum to deny the construction of ...

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

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

About 700 visitors were in attendance at Sapelo Island, about 60 miles south of Savannah, before the collapse which tragically killed seven people and left three in critical condition. According to ...

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

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The partial collapse of a ferry dock that claimed the lives of seven people attending a cultural festival has left a historic Black community in Georgia struggling with how to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For generations, Mary Mack’s family has offered free burial plots to the bereaved families on St. Helena Island. It’s an ancestral ...