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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 ...
McIntosh County commissioners reversed course after the referendum. They now side with Gullah Geechee residents who want to ...
A citizen referendum, only the second of its kind in Georgia history, seeks to block a zoning amendment ...
According to reports, 85 percent of voters rejected the zoning ordinance, marking yet another win in the Gullah-Geechee people’s fight against gentrification. The battle cost over $500,000 in legal ...
Voters in coastal Georgia rejected an ordinance that would allow the construction of larger homes on Sapelo Island.
He played Pepe Peña on “¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?,” a series about a Cuban American family that is believed to be the United States’ ...
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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 ...
Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box.
Nearly 85% of voters who cast ballots in a referendum backed Gullah Geechee efforts to halt the construction of large homes ...
“ People worked hard to get this land on Sapelo and they worked hard to preserve who they are," said Maurice Bailey, an ...
It is an advance to human rights that the story of the Gullah-Geechee people of South Carolina is today being told more often ...
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