Gullah Geechee people set out to keep their family land. Unclear titles and surging taxes are pushing them out

Property disputes, predatory developers and surging sea levels are putting the historic Black community at riskOn Arthur Champen’s half-acre property in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, a thicket of southern live oaks, palmettos and pine trees muffle the roar of cars on nearby highway 278. His haint blue house, lightened by the sun, sits on stilts to protect it from…

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