In the twenty-first century United States, laws and social relationships continue to be shaped and reinforced by stark distinctions between different racial groups. Eugenics and public health ...

The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved through selective breeding – remains opaque almost 100 years after ...

Orlice “Lisa” Hodges clutches an educational brochure about North Carolinas’ eugenics program on August 5, 2021, in Raleigh. As a young woman, Hodges was told by relatives that her aunt was “fixed”- a ...

Some scientists say the entire scientific community needs to reckon with how their research is too-easily co-opted by racist elements online. Reading time 10 minutes The bunk theory of eugenics has ...