Georgia’s highest court is weighing in on a fight over special protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black people descended from slaves SAVANNAH, Ga.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners and local officials who have weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last ...

(Brian Brown/The Georgia Trust For Historic Preservation) ATLANTA (CN) ­— Residents of what is believed to be the last intact community of descendants of enslaved West Africans took their fight ...

FILE - A sticker saying "Keep Sapelo Geechee" is worn on the shirt of George Grovner, a resident of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island, during a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners ...