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The GoFundMe, launched in May, reached its original goal thanks to a final massive donation.

An attorney for a Savannah-based law firm was appointed by Beaufort County courts to mediate the Hilton Head land dispute. The case has become a rallying cry for Gullah Geechee land owners against large-scale developers.

Descendants of enslaved Africans are worried their cultural heritage & property could soon be lost due to changes in the island’s zoning laws

Descendants of enslaved Africans on Georgia’s Sapelo Island – one of the last intact Gullah Geechee communities in the state – are worried their cultural heritage and property could soon be lost after city officials voted to change the island’s zoning laws.

Descendants of enslaved Africans on Georgia’s Sapelo Island – one of the last intact Gullah Geechee communities in the state – are worried their cultural heritage and property could soon be lost after city officials voted to change the island’s zoning laws.

Wright, who is 93, acquired the deed to the land in 2012 after her husband died in 1998, her granddaughter, Tracey Love Graves, said.

Australian scientists in an international team have made a breakthrough in bowel cancer screening using engineered bacteria.In a new study, researchers from the South Australian Health and Medical

PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C.—The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and other vegetables in the neighborhood where his family has lived near the South Carolina coast since not long after the Civil War. That was before new half-a-million-dollar homes in a nearby subdivision overwhelmed the drainage system. Runoff…

By James Pollard | The Associated Press - Black landowners in historic settlement communities around Charleston, South Carolina are facing disputes with developers looking to make money on vacation getaways and new homes, as skyrocketing property taxes create a growing burden and assessments rise.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN