FILE - A utility pole stands in the middle of a marsh at sunset on Sapelo Island, Ga., a Gullah-Geechee community, May 16, 2013. Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A judge on Tuesday approved a referendum sought by residents of one of South’s last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants, ordering an Oct. 1 special election on ...

A judge on Tuesday approved a referendum sought by residents of one of the South's last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants, ordering an Oct. 1 special election on whether to ...