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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJune 21, 2012
In today's link roundup: The plan to compensate victims of a devastating state policy is unlikely to go through. Plus: Is Nicki Minaj becoming a health care advocate?
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMay 16, 2012
A bill filed today would give those who lost their child-bearing abilities $50,000 each.
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by Sheryl Huggins Salomon onNovember 7, 2011
The state's eugenics board targeted poor, black and disabled females. Now victims are speaking out.
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by Nsenga Burton onAugust 1, 2011
Patents for genetic-screening tests rejected because of issues involving race.
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July 1, 2011
A new Smithsonian traveling exhibit explores race from various perspectives. Its lead curator walks us through insights on the real and made-up ways that race has shaped our lives over time.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJune 22, 2011
Victims of the state's eugenics program were targeted for being poor, "feebleminded," "promiscuous" or black. There's bipartisan support for a proposal to pay them $20,000 each.
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