Maligned in black and white: Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?
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The Poynter Institute
May 13, 2019

In January, the Orlando Sentinel posted an impassioned apology for inflaming racial tensions decades ago in a 1949 case called “The Groveland Four.” Four young African American men were accused of raping a white woman, charges that resulted in the extra-judicial killings of two of them and the lengthy imprisonment of two others.

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