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FILE - A sticker saying "Keep Sapelo Geechee" is worn on the shirt of George Grovner, a resident of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island, during a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. On Thursday, Oct. 12, Black residents of the tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South's last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities. (AP Photo/Ross Bynum, File)

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