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

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.

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 ...

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

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

Election follows years of legal battles over development rules in historic Gullah Geechee community ...

Nick Spitzer: The Gullah Geechee Shouters, how about that? Beautiful. We're going to talk just a little bit for a moment. In radio, we call this chin music, and I'm going to go with age before beauty, ...

Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off the Georgia coast. But she grew up in Savannah at a time when she says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s impossible to miss the bright mural of a beautiful Black woman who appears to be inviting people into Ma Daisy’s Restaurant.