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Leaders at the North Carolina legislature outlined their budget deal, which includes raises for public school teachers and workers but omits payments for victims of the state's old forced ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...