A federal judge in Georgia is refusing to dismiss a lawsuit that claims racial discrimination is eroding one of the last Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants on the Southeast U.S. coast.
U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen Jr. ruled that residents and landowners from the tiny Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island have presented discrimination claims under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution that are “at least plausible.”
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