The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island is preparing to receive thousands of images and negatives by the iconic artist who defied 19th-century gender norms.

The City of Durham MP, Mary Kelly Foy, has welcomed the Government's announcement, but said all officers should be provided ...

The Commission for Historical Statues is set to approve a bronze statue of 20th-century civil rights leader Barbara Rose ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

To a South Carolina museum, in a long-awaited legal battle conclusion, Harvard will give up a collection containing 175-year-old photos of Black slaves in the U.S. South. These are the earliest ...

Robert P. Jones is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute. He is the author of the New York Times ...

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

From Jasmine Crockett to Henry Winkler, commencement speakers urged the Class of 2025 to find their community and overcome ...

Harvard University has agreed to settle a dispute over who has the rights to images of enslaved Africans taken in 1850 by a ...

The first column, titled “Segregation Is Basically Wrong,” asserted ... house on Price Avenue as a dark room to develop his photos. Years later, even after Manos left South Carolina ...

Ferguson, which upheld segregation nationwide. Although the Roberts family’s case was unsuccessful, it inspired many activists and the community along the Northern Slope. In 1849, led by ...