The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and his daughter Delia.

A key question of the case was whether Harvard could legally be allowed to continue owning dehumanizing images of enslaved ...

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

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, ...

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

You may even want more than a full day to see everything. Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver ...

Each had an American name to use in the outside world, where they were often ostracized and called monkeys and savages. Their African name was for the extended family. Helen Jackson, a ...

Near the end of “This House,” a heart-wrenching opera given its world premiere last weekend, the matriarch Ida poignantly intones messages to her family on stage and to the audience.“History's the ...