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Brigitte Bardot buried Wednesday following a funeral service in the southern French city of St. Tropez. Her cause of death cancer revealed by her husband Bernard d'Ormale known as a supporter of the National Rally (formerly the National Front). She had cancer and had undergone two surgeries prior to her death... On Thursday protesting farmers rolled into Paris to drive home their opposition to the European Union's free trade deal with the MERCOSEUR nations of South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). But even though France voted "No" on Friday most...

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha. She was a single mother with one child who lived at the segregated O'Berry Center for African American adults with intellectual disabilities in Goldsboro. According to the North Carolina Eugenics Board, Bertha had an IQ of 62 and exhibited “aggressive behavior and sexual promiscuity.” She had been orphaned as a child and had a limited education. Likely because of her “low IQ score,” the board determined she was not...