Sapelo Island residents want more than a say in a recent controversial zoning ordinance decision that opens their oceanside community to bigger and taller housing. They want a vote. A coalition of ...

Famlee Day, a celebration of the deep ties Gullah Geechee Nation families have to each other and the Lowcountry land and sea, is returning Saturday. And for the first time, it’s being held on St.

McIntosh County commissioners called a special meeting today to revisit zoning in the historic Hog Hammock area, one of ...

AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Among the more than 100 Sea Islands that stretch from Georgetown County, S.C., to Amelia Island, Fla., and about 30 miles inland, is the home of the Gullah Geechee people. Sign up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For generations, Mary Mack’s family has offered free burial plots to the bereaved families on St. Helena Island. It’s an ancestral ...

While the isolation of Sapelo Island has allowed the Geechee to preserve their culture through the decades, it’s made them vulnerable to “cultural and economic deprivation” from the state and county, ...

2 days after voters repealed a controversial 2023 zoning change by referendum, commissioners push for rules to limit development on Georgia barrier island. A house stands in the Hogg Hummock community ...

Photo Credit: A senior man on a large veranda takes in the beautiful landscape background of a lowcountry salt marsh near Sapelo Island, coastal Georgia, USA. Adobe / Joanne Dale Gullah Geechee ...

Sapelo Island, sitting off the coast of Georgia, has been home to one of America's last intact Gullah Geechee communities. The Gullah Geechee is a community of descendants of enslaved people who ...

Holding on to family land, historical landmarks, and the memories associated with them is increasingly challenging for the Gullah Geechee community. Gullah Geechee people are descendants of enslaved ...

Climate change is on the minds of world leaders gathering for the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. They'll be talking about emissions reductions, carbon markets and other ...