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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Russ Bynum

Judge orders a stop to referendum in Georgia slave descendants' zoning battle with county officials

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A judge on Wednesday ordered a halt to a special election initiated by residents of the one of the South’s last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants, who looked to voters to undo zoning changes that residents say threaten island homes.

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