Tawana Vicenia Brawley [1] (born December 15, 1971) [1] [2] is an African American woman from New York who gained notoriety in November 1987 at age 15 when she falsely accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her over a four-day period.

Aug 5, 2013 · As a teenager, Brawley said she had been attacked and raped by white men. The young African-American's accusations hit front pages, especially after Rev. Al Sharpton took up...

Jul 29, 2019 · Tawana Brawley, left, of Wappinger Falls, N.Y., was the center of the legal controversy over her charges that she was raped by six white men, listens to her adviser Al Sharpton.

Dec 23, 2012 · Twenty-five years after the spotlight first glared on Tawana Brawley — a black woman who as a teen claimed she was raped by a gang of white men, smeared with feces and stuffed in a garbage bag...

Aug 4, 2013 · After 26 years, Tawana Brawley has finally begun paying damages to Steven Pagones, a man she falsely accused of being among a group of men who raped her in 1987.

Jan 25, 2025 · In 1987, a then-15-year-old Brawley claimed to have been abducted and assaulted by a group of white men in Wappingers Falls, New York. The allegations, which included racial slurs, became a lightning rod for racial tensions, drawing …

Jun 10, 2017 · Tawana Brawley is an African American woman from Wappinger’s Falls, New York, who became known when she was 15 years old in 1987 for wrongly accusing four white men of brutally raping her in Dutchess County.

Jun 3, 2013 · Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old African-American girl from the New York City area, was said to have been abducted and repeatedly raped by six white men. She was found with “KKK” written across...

Nov 13, 2009 · Tawana Brawley, a young Black woman, is found covered with feces and wrapped in garbage bags outside the Pavilion Condominiums in Wappingers Falls, New York. Brawley appeared to have undergone...

Aug 5, 2013 · As our colleagues at The Two-Way reported, Tawana Brawley, the central figure in one of the most bizarre and racially polarizing cases in New York City's recent history, has begun to pay part of...