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Black California residents could receive up to $1.2 million based on how many years they have lived in the state after its official reparation task force approved recommendations on Saturday to issue a formal reparative monetary apology.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In the Senate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has continued to work to bring justice to the victims of North Carolina's state-run eugenics and sterilization program
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2016 @ 6:38 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) released a video explaining what motivated him to pursue eugenics compensation legislation in North Carolina, and what prompted him to introduce federal legislation to protect the compensation payments of eugenics victims in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 @ 9:12 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act will help protect living eugenics victims receiving compensation payments by excluding their payments from being used in determining eligibility for, or the amount of, federal public benefits.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:46 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Hillary Clinton claims to admire Margaret Sanger, her tenacity, her courage, and her vision. Unfortunately, few people truly understand Sanger's vision. Even less know it's being implemented even today.
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2016 @ 11:00 pm
By: Pat Riot
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee successfully agreed to send The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act out of committee and to the House floor for an upcoming vote. The bipartisan legislation, originally...
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:22 am
By: Chris Downey
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Last night, the Senate unanimously passed The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act, legislation introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Carper (D-DE) that excludes payments from state eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining federal benefits...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:55 am
By: Chris Downey
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In 1947, 14-year old Willis Lynch of Littleton, North Carolina 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 procedure without his consent.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced "The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act," which would exclude payments from state eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining federal benefits
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 3:29 am
By: Christopher Maye
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An important deadline for compensating victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program may pass with very few victims qualifying. That isn't good news.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An important deadline for compensating victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program may pass with very few victims qualifying. That isn't good news.
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One stark difference between the GOP Senate budget plan and the one proposed by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory is money to compensate victims of North Carolina's eugenics program.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 1:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory takes action on legislation and his proposed bedget for the state of North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 2:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Although the sterilization laws were passed in 1919 and 1929, the Eugenics Board was organized in July 1933. In four short months, the Board started receiving petitions to sterilize North Carolinians.
Published: Saturday, January 5th, 2013 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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List of resource links.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From 1929 to 1977, the State of North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 of her own people for possessing "undesirable" genetic traits in the name of eugenics.
Published: Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 @ 12:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the second year in a row, Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the state budget approved by the General Assembly. And also for the second straight year, the General Assembly garnered the three-fifths majority vote in both chambers needed to override her veto.
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 7:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's next set of elected leaders can boost taxpayers' job prospects, help educate their children better, and protect them from overly high taxes and burdensome regulations.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I observed yesterday, the new budget plan for 2012-13 contains many good provisions. I admit to being frustrated, however, at the unwillingness of conferees to include $10 million to compensate victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The "compromise" budget bill crafted by the conference committee was approved by both chambers of the state legislature Thursday, meaning the bill now moves to Gov. Perdue's desk.
Published: Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The General Assembly has completed its work on the state's nearly $20.2 billion General Fund budget. It's now on Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's desk.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate and House budget negotiators could be nearing an agreement on the state's $20 billion-plus General Fund spending plan.
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Prospects for compensating victims of a decades long forced sterilization program dimmed this week when the state Senate defeated a measure that would have inserted $11 million into the budget to pay for the compensation.
Published: Saturday, June 16th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Victims of the state's forced sterilization program moved a step closer to getting $50,000 in compensation apiece after the House Judiciary Committee gave its blessing to the proposal on Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Compensation could soon be on its way to victims of North Carolina's involuntary sterilization program that was in operation in the state for decades.
Published: Friday, May 18th, 2012 @ 2:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've had the long session, the redistricting session, the constitutional amendment session, the veto override session and skeleton sessions.
Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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