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Judge Dismisses Suit by Georgia Slave Descendants over Technical Errors. Lawyers Vow to Try Again

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing local officials of race discrimination when they approved zoning changes to one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants. Superior Court Judge Jay Stewart ruled the civil complaint had to be dismissed because of technical errors […]

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