The Florida Senate unanimously approved $4 million in compensation for the families of the Groveland Four, a historic step ...

A proposal to compensate the families of the “Groveland Four” is headed to the Senate floor, while the House has yet to act ...

A bill to give $4 million to the Groveland Four’s descendants cleared its final Senate Committee and is heading to the Senate ...

More than 70 years ago, four young Black men falsely accused of rape became the victims of a powerful Florida sheriff and a broken legal system.

House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell says the Senate unanimously passing the Groveland Four bill should send a “strong signal” of bipartisan momentum to House leaders. But the clock is ticking ...

Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Ernest Thomas and Charles Greenlee, who was only 16 -- were wrongly prosecuted or killed for the alleged rape of a white woman in Lake County in 1949.

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, ...

A proposal to compensate the families of the Groveland Four is advancing in the Florida Senate, decades after the men were ...