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 ...
In their first day back at work for the "short session," North Carolina lawmakers filed bills to pay for reparations to victims of the state's eugenics program and to patch a hole in Medicaid funding.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...