On Monday, Planned Parenthood removed the name of Margaret Sanger from its health clinic in Manhattan. By way of explanation, the organization cited its founder’s “harmful connections to the eugenics ...

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from all “campus buildings, assets, and honors.” This unnaming came as the institution ...

STANFORD (CBS SF) – Stanford University announced this week that it will remove the name of David Starr Jordan, the school's first president, from several campus landmarks over his role promoting the ...

Photo: This family was awarded Honorable Mention, Large Family Class, as part of a eugenics exhibit at a Kansas fair in 1923. The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" ...

In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...

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The new book “‘Vermont for the Vermonters’: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” as seen on the shelves of Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When ...

Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone is that abortion is part of ...

The namesake of a Burlington community center had ties to the Vermont eugenics movement of the 1920s and ’30s. The executive director of the Sara Holbrook Community Center said leaders of the ...

Nora Sullivan is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and communications director at Movement Funding. She holds a master’s degree in public affairs from University College Dublin. Even for those who ...

In today’s public discourse, the use of terms like “animals” and “apes” to refer to members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups strikes a painful chord. In a related manner (though ...