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.

Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...

Harvard University has agreed to turn over 175-year-old photographs of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina, ending ...

Lillian Boutté-l’Etienne, the jazz and gospel singer who spent decades in Europe advocating for the music of her native New ...

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Harvard turns over 175-year-old photos believed to be the earliest photos of enslaved people to an African American museum in ...

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

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...