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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...