Georgia’s Public Service Commission heard the final oral arguments this week for and against allowing eminent domain to be used to build a new 4-mile rail spur through a majority Black community that opposes it.
Expelled from their property by the military amid World War II, Black families in the Harris Neck Land Trust are asking President Biden for an executive order to “correct a moral wrong.”
A hearing has begun to help determine whether a Georgia railroad can legally condemn property to build a rail line. The Georgia Public Service Commission began hearing testimony on Monday.
The Smiths chose to return home to this land because of how his father used it as an engine for educating Mark and his siblings and launching them into the wider world.
Former residents of the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a kind of reparations for the erasure of the neighborhood in the urban renewal period.
Caterpillars crawl where Tim Denson's horses once grazed in northwest Georgia. Big yellow Caterpillars, their steel blades slicing through the red clay,...
