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Virginia Brooks remembers it being the Great Depression when, at the age of 13, "the law" took her from her Robeson County foster home and put her in a detention center for girls in Moore County. "I ...
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — North Carolina’s Speaker of the House is re-introducing a bill to give victims of the state’s controversial eugenics program $50,000 each. Thousands of people were ...
Victims of North Carolina’s forced sterilization program and their advocates are hoping today’s first-ever public airing of their stories will prompt state lawmakers to compensate the victims for what ...
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 ...
ROCHESTER — Drs. William and Charles Mayo are known as medicine’s dynamic duo, talented surgeons and founders of Mayo Clinic who turned a small rural town into a worldwide medical mecca. But the ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...