There were nearly 8,000 victims. Now, the few hundred who are still alive may finally get what they want. State House and Senate leaders reached a deal that could give a one-time payment to living ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

North Carolina's Sterilization Victims Foundation is once again accepting requests for help from those who think they or a family member may have been forcibly sterilized by the state's Eugenics ...

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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 ...

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 ...