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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 ...

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 ...

New details have emerged about a North Carolina program that sterilized thousands of people against their will. A bill to compensate those survivors is now one step closer to Governor Bev Perdue's ...