What My Black Mother’s Involuntary Sterilization in 1965 Reveals About America Today

This piece is adapted from Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers, published by Spiegel & Grau on January 28, 2025. Just before Christmas in 1965, my mother was recovering from the birth of her fifth child, David, at the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, on the campus of the […]