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 ...

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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.

This story was published in partnership with The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under existing asset forfeiture laws, it is legal for government officials to seize your gambling winnings, your Dan Brown paperbacks collection, your Lucky Charms collectible cereal bowl and spoon ...

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 ...