A Senate committee took the first step in compensating the families of Groveland Four — the Black men who were falsely ...

A White woman who falsely accused four Black men of rape in the Jim Crow-era South in 1949 has died at the age of 92. Norma Padgett Upshaw claimed the four men – Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd, ...

Norma Padgett, who as a young housewife falsely accused four black men of raping her near Groveland, Florida, in 1949, has died at 92. Her claims propelled a seminal criminal case that helped change ...

In the early hours at Kroger’s Groveland, Florida, fulfillment center, the usual hum of over a thousand robots and busy forklifts was replaced by silence. Workers, still in safety vests, gathered ...