SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A judge has blocked a Georgia county from approving larger homes in a tiny island community of Black slave descendants until the state's highest court decides whether residents can ...

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill this week that removes a significant restriction for drug treatment centers seeking to open in the state. In December, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote about a ...

County commissioners in Georgia face a lawsuit from Black residents in Hogg Hummock, a historic island community, over zoning changes. Zoning changes in the county doubled the size of houses allowed, ...

DARIEN, Ga. — Elected commissioners of a Georgia county who rolled back development restrictions protecting one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants asked a judge ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and ...

The sparsely populated, Hog Hammock district of Sapelo Island, Georgia, which is home to what is believed to be the last intact community of West African slave descendants, faces persistent pressures ...

A judge on Wednesday ordered a halt to a special election initiated by residents of the one of the South’s last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants, who were looking to ...

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 ...