The Root on MSN

How the Gullah-Geechee People Stopped Gentrification Dead in its Tracks… For Now

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

Gullah-Geechee community in Georgia scores win to protect island from developers, rising property costs

Voters in one Georgia county have overwhelmingly supported a measure intending to protect a historic Black community from ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sapelo Island to stay ‘Geechee’: McIntosh Commission to bend on zoning law

McIntosh County commissioners reversed course after the referendum. They now side with Gullah Geechee residents who want to ...
TAG24 on MSN

Gullah-Geechee community scores major win in referendum on Sapelo Island zoning ordinance

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

Sweet Tea: Two cities, two spellings

The two names originate from Caddo language of the Caddo Confederacy, a group of Indigenous tribes in the ...
Post Register

Slave descendants score a victory with voters in fight to protect their Georgia island homes

Voters in a coastal Georgia county Tuesday rejected an ordinance allowing large homes on remote Sapelo Island, where Black ...
guardonline.com

Slave descendants take a fight to protect their Georgia island homes to voters

Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box. Voters in coastal McIntosh County were ...