Sterilization

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Belly of the Beast thegrio.com
November 23, 2020
‘Belly of the Beast’ is a PBS documentary that follows the journey of Kelli Dillon who was involuntarily sterilized.
February 18, 2013
OPINION - We’ve seen how people, organizations and events have shaped who we are as African-American women...
June 21, 2012
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom it deemed 'feeble-minded'…
February 22, 2012
The proposed law, put forward by Rep. Yasmin Neal (D), would ban the practice of male sterilization except in cases…
January 10, 2012
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - If the estimate is correct, the payments could total around $100 million...
November 7, 2011
VIDEO - North Carolina was one of 31 states to have a government run eugenics program. By the 1960s, tens…
August 15, 2011
WINFALL, N.C. (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized more than 7,600 individuals in the name of "improving"…
August 1, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina is one of about a half dozen states to apologize for past eugenics programs,…
June 22, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- There is nothing the state of North Carolina can do, Elaine Riddick says, to make up…
June 20, 2011
RALEIGH, NC (AP) - Next week, victims and their relatives will tell their stories to a state task force considering…