Georgia’s highest court is weighing in on a fight over special protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black people descended from slaves ...

If a slave died while cutting rice stalks in the wet paddy fields on Sapelo Island, Georgia, those laboring with him were not permitted to attend to the body. The buzzards arrived first.

A thin white smile curves across the blank face of the South Pacific Ocean ... interrupting a soccer match on the runway. The islands of Tuvalu, scattered over 500,000 square miles of equatorial ...