North Carolinians who were sterilized by the state's eugenics program have been waiting for the rest of their compensation from the state, but the process has been put on hold by the ongoing budget ...

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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 ...

Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At seven years old, she remembers her grandmother offering an explanation — chilling in retrospect — of what happened to ...

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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.

State officials dedicated a historical marker to remember the forced sterilization program that affected thousands of people in North Carolina. The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced abortion on Saturday as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them. VATICAN ...