Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sticker saying "Keep Sapelo Geechee" is worn on someone's shirt at a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners last year in ...

ATLANTA — Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia State University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to launch the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land ...

DARIEN, Ga. — Black landowners from a tiny island community returned to a Georgia courtroom Friday urging a judge to let them move forward with a lawsuit that accuses local officials of illegally ...

The ruling overturns a lower court’s decision blocking the Gullah-Geechee community from opposing McIntosh County. The Gullah-Geechee community in Georgia is celebrating after the state’s Supreme ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county will decide Tuesday whether large homes should be allowed on remote Sapelo Island, where Black landowners fear the change could saddle them with ...

It was Gullah Geechee Heritage Day at the state Capitol on Thursday afternoon. State Rep. Carl Gilliard and members of the Gullah Geechee Heritage Society hosted the event. They celebrated the ...

MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Five months after hearing the case, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Gullah Geechee communities on Sapelo Island. The legal battle over zoning on ...

The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridors’ North Carolina Summit is offering an immersive tour highlighting the history of Black churches in Brunswick and New Hanover counties.

Voters in McIntosh County, which is predominantly white, voted 85% in favor of the referendum to deny the construction of large homes on Sapelo Island. As gentrification continues to seep deeper into ...