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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 ...

In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate survivors. The film changed his life. “Seeing The State of ...

"Rock Center with Brian Williams," a news magazine show on NBC-TV, will broadcast a program tonight about North Carolina's eugenics program. The show, which begins at 10 p.m., features interviews with ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Files of more than 400 people sterilized under a now discredited North Carolina program help illustrate why poor and disabled people were given taxpayer-financed surgeries to prevent them from bearing ...