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News Articles: Gullah Geechee

Attorney Philip Thompson argues his case in front of the Georgia Supreme Court April 16, 2025. Credit: Screenshot from https://www.gasupreme.us/oa-april-16-2025/

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Georgia high court hears Sapelo zoning referendum case

The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments about a controversial zoning decision that threatens to change the character of an historic Gullah Geechee enclave in McIntosh County.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
Signs outside the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, whose members supported a since-canceled referendum to undo zoning changes affecting the island's Hogg Hummock neighborhood.

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  • Politics

Georgia Supreme Court to hear Gullah Geechee appeal in April on scuttled Sapelo Island referendum

Early voting was already underway when a judge canceled the grassroots referendum last fall.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Neesha Powell-Ingabire is the author of the memoir, 'Come By Here'.

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Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on her Geechee roots in new memoir

A new memoir by Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire is a reflection on slavery’s impact on the Georgia coast, her Geechee heritage, and the Geechee culture that exists today.

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Peter Biello
A yard sign in front of the Graball Country Store in Hogg Hummock encourages McIntosh voters to vote yes and repeal rezoning on Sapelo Island. Credit: Jazz Watts/SICARS

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Judge stalls permits for larger homes on Sapelo

New zoning is put on hold while the Georgia Supreme Court weighs the validity of a referendum on the same issue.

November 07, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
Yvonne Brockington testifies remotely from a hospital bed during a Georgia Senate hearing Thursday into the Oct. 19 collapse of the Sapelo Island dock that killed seven people.

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‘Scarred for the rest of my life’: Survivors testify about Sapelo Island dock collapse that killed 7

The mental state felt by some survivors “will make the living jealous of the dead,” one attorney said.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Attorney Ken Jarrard makes his case to Superior Court Senior Judge Gary McCorvey during oral arguments in McIntosh v. Webster on Sept. 20, 2024.  Credit: Mary Landers/The Current GA

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  • News

Stopping Sapelo zoning referendum costs McIntosh County more than holding it

McIntosh’s legal fees for two cases related to zoning on Sapelo Island have topped $170,000 and continue to grow. 

October 28, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
Georgia Rep. Carl Gilliard speaks at a news conference hosted by the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus on Monday evening at the McIntosh County mainland dock near Sapelo Island.

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Georgia Legislative Black Caucus demands answers after Sapelo Island dock collapse killed 7

A special legislative hearing on the dock collapse has been scheduled for next week.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Yvonne Grovner and her son JR Grovner at the Sapelo Island dock.

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Sapelo Island resident says he warned state that dock was in poor condition before collapse killed 7

JR Grovner said that he told a Georgia DNR captain last summer that the Sapelo Island dock's gangway was “going to collapse.”

October 21, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
People enter building on Sapelo Island following dock collapse

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7 dead, 8 injured after Sapelo dock collapse

A dock collapsed at Sapelo Island, leaving several dead and many injured. The island was celebrating its annual Cultural Day.

October 19, 2024
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By:
  • The Current
Signs outside the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, whose members supported a since-canceled referendum to undo zoning changes affecting the island's Hogg Hummock neighborhood.

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  • Politics

Sapelo Island's Gullah Geechee vow to continue fight against rezoning, after judge nixes referendum

“The zoning has an ability to eradicate more of the population, as if it hadn't already been destroyed enough,” one Gullah Geechee resident said.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
A yard sign in front of the Graball Country Store in Hogg Hummock encourages McIntosh voters to vote yes and repeal rezoning on Sapelo Island. Credit: Jazz Watts/SICARS

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Judge halts Sapelo zoning vote mid-election

More than 800 McIntosh residents have already cast their ballots regarding the repeal of Hogg Hummock zoning.

September 27, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
A home in Hogg Hummock - Sapelo Island Credit: Brian Brown/Vanishing Georgia

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Sapelo Island residents renew rezoning fight at historic community

Black residents of Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island refiled a legal challenge to zoning they fear will lead to higher taxes and push them off their ancestral Gullah Geechee community in McIntosh County.

June 17, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge features live oak trees draped with Spanish moss, as pictured here on the north side of the peninsula, as well as saltmarsh, pine forests and shrublands.

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  • Politics

Along Georgia's coast, a call to Biden from the Gullah Geechee: Return part of our ancestral land

Expelled from their property by the military amid World War II, Black families in the Harris Neck Land Trust are asking President Biden for an executive order to “correct a moral wrong.”

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Residents, landowners and supporters of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island fill a courtroom, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga.

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  • News

Judge dismisses suit by Georgia slave descendants over technical errors. Lawyers vow to try again

Attorneys plan to refile a lawsuit over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants. A Superior Court judge threw out the original civil complaint Tuesday, ruling that the lawsuit improperly named individual commissioners of coastal McIntosh County.

March 14, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Keep Sapelo Geechee sticker

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Attorneys for Georgia slave descendants urge judge not to throw out their lawsuit over island zoning

A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island homes is before a Georgia judge, who must decide whether to allow lawyers to amend the civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed. 

February 20, 2024
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  • Associated Press
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