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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 ...

Two state lawmakers are backing restitution payments for victims of North Carolina's eugenics program. The state eugenics program operated from 1929 through 1974, sterilizing an estimated 7,600 people ...

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — North Carolina’s NAACP is sending an open letter to the governor, speaker of the House and state Senate leaders seeking a yearlong deadline extension for victims of the state’s ...

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 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.

State Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, a long-time advocate for North Carolinians who were involuntarily sterilized under the state’s eugenics program, introduced legislation today that would set up a ...

Regarding Saturday’s guest commentary on population growth, “Issue gets big name in Melinda Gates”: When women take control of their own reproductive abilities, it’s called family planning. Eugenics, ...