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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge has blocked a Georgia county from approving larger homes in a tiny island community of Black slave descendants until the state’s highest court decides whether residents can challenge by referendum zoning changes they fear will lead to unaffordable tax increases. Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island was founded after the Civil War by slaves who worked the cotton plantation of Thomas Spalding. It’s one of the South’s few remaining communities of people known as Gullah-Geechee, whose isolation from the mainland resulted in a unique culture with deep ties to Africa. The few dozen Black residents remaining on the Georgia island have spent the past year fighting local officia

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