Press Play with Madeleine Brand
California hasn't come to terms with its history of forced sterilization
For decades, California led the nation in the number of people it sterilized. Now a researcher has uncovered documents that identifies who was sterilized where. She’s trying to set up a database so the victims who are still alive can be compensated.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readFor decades, California led the nation in the number of people it sterilized. Now a researcher has uncovered documents that identifies who was sterilized where. She’s trying to set up a database so the victims who are still alive can be compensated.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Alexandra Minna Stern
professor of English and history at UCLA, and author of the book “Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination”
The full episode
4 of 5Is Hollywood out of touch with Trump's America?- 0:00Is Hollywood out of touch with this political moment?
- 12:18Do Trump's tweets change the minds of manufacturing companies?
- 19:12The future of hemp in California
- 26:54California hasn't come to terms with its history of forced sterilizationYou’re reading this
- 41:00Teen Vogue finds its political voice