California should pay reparations to victims of its eugenics-based sterilization programs, which took away the reproductive abilities of about 20,000 people in the first half of the 20th century, ...

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Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

Local filmmaker Jane Gillooly, a native of Ferguson, Mo., returned to her hometown in the wake of the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown. There she filmed the documentary “Where the Pavement ...

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In 1947, 14-year old Willis Lynch of Littleton, N.C., was asked by a nurse to sing a song as she placed a mask over his face. Lynch unknowingly inhaled an anesthetic, and then underwent a vasectomy ...

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