In the 1970s, doctors sterilized Dolores Madrigal without her knowledge. She became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by Mexican-American women who said they were coerced into having their tubes tied. A ...
The weirdness started the day Nick Madrigal was traded. Madrigal was injured at the time and about to complete the purchase of a home near the spring training complex of the team that moved him, the ...
KQED announced today that acclaimed journalist Alexis Madrigal has been named co-host of KQED’s long-running public affairs radio program Forum. Madrigal arrives at KQED from The Atlantic, where he ...
On a fall morning in East L.A. in 1974, Dolores Madrigal and her husband, Orencio, ate breakfast while listening to ranchera radio station KWKW when a news segment aired that would change her life.
She was among hundreds of women who said they were coerced into sterilization at a California hospital in the 1970s. The lawsuit led to state and national reforms. By Michael S. Rosenwald Dolores ...