Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people ...

Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s.   Tamara Lanier, the ...

Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be ...

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina. By Clyde ...

"Everybody but Harvard." The pictures were held at Harvard's Peabody ... The two-year-old museum houses artifacts of slavery and features the history enslaved Africans in the state.

BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be photographed in 1850 for a racist study by a professor ...

He did, however, express disappointment that the school did not directly address Lanier’s claims to the pictures nor its connection to slavery. Harvard, meanwhile, issued a statement saying it ...