Slave descendants fight to protect their threatened island community at Georgia’s highest court

By RUSS BYNUM
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 Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves.
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