Communication studies faculty to discuss eugenics

Daniel Grano and Margaret Quinlan, faculty members in the Department of Communication Studies, along with graduate student Elliot Hamer, will present “Did Race and Money Matter? Discrimination in the N.C. Eugenics Program” at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29, at the YWCA Central Carolinas, 3420 Park Rd.

In this event, sponsored by the United Church of Christ, the speakers will focus on how the state’s failure to compensate victims of the sterilization program was based upon the idea that the past cannot be repaired by those living in the present. The talk also will address how this idea undermines efforts to address public and moral obligations to past injustices.

A light breakfast and refreshments will be served at this free event; registration is requested.