A North Carolina eugenics program sought to breed out the “Black population” in the 20th century and that may be the reason for the state’s disproportionate effect on its citizens, according to a new ...

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For more than four decades North Carolina’s statewide eugenics program forcibly sterilized almost 7,600 people — many of whom were Black. That wasn’t a coincidence, according to a new academic paper.

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More than 300 people who said they were sterilized under North Carolina's erstwhile eugenics program have been denied compensation after an initial review, officials said Thursday. Lawmakers last year ...

This story was published in partnership with The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. — Between July 1946 and June 1968, 43 sterilizations were performed in McDowell County as part of the state’s eugenics program. Today, a state foundation seeking to provide ...

photo by Adam David Kissick Elaine Riddick, a victim of forced sterilization, speaks before a state task force that could recommend compensation for the nearly 3,000 living victims sterilized through ...

Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion on a eugenics program in Cyprus that enjoys wide support, with Ruth Schwartz Cowan, a professor of the history and sociology of science ...

A Tennessee county has greenlit a modern-day eugenics program under the guise of offering prisoners a better future. Judge Sam Benningfield of White County issued an order in May that reduces jail ...

Under existing asset forfeiture laws, it is legal for government officials to seize your gambling winnings, your Dan Brown paperbacks collection, your Lucky Charms collectible cereal bowl and spoon ...

As appalling as it sounds today, the practice of sterilizing mentally ill women and men to prevent them from passing on their supposedly defective genes was routine and accepted across the United ...