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 ...
Gov. Bev Perdue on Wednesday said that she will include $10.3 million in her 2012 budget proposal for funds that will help compensate people impacted by the state's sterilization program. The funds ...
"Rock Center with Brian Williams," a news magazine show on NBC-TV, will broadcast a program tonight about North Carolina's eugenics program. The show, which begins at 10 p.m., features interviews with ...
Of the 32 US states that forcibly sterilized people in the 20th century under the influence of eugenics, only three have taken accountability by compensating survivors. A group of researchers is ...
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.
Robert talks with Steven Selden, program coordinator of the Curriculum Theory and Development Program at the University of Maryland, about the history of eugenics in America. Yesterday, the State of ...
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is at odds with fellow Republicans over whether victims of the state’s involuntary sterilization program 50 years ago can sue the state for compensation. The ...
For UNC Center for Civil Rights lawyers and their clients in a eugenics-restitution lawsuit, a March victory in the N.C. Supreme Court turned into a defeat Tuesday in the lower-level state Court of ...
In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color. Moonlight Pulido, whose womb was removed in prison in 2005, ...
Republicans and President Donald Trump have instituted their new version of a eugenics program by cutting Medicaid and foreign aid programs. The original American eugenics program of the early 1900s ...