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 ...

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

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

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

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

Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with ...

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

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

Voters in a coastal Georgia county have rejected a zoning change that would have allowed much larger homes on Sapelo Island, ...

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