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 ...

Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

Kathleen DuVal, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, “a panoramic portrait of Native American ... and legacy of an upper middle class ...

Our recommendations for summer reading in 2025, featuring many books from Wisconsin writers, and including selections for ...

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

The Met has made key acquisitions of black art in recent years, including the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift and a group of African American portrait photographs from the 1940s and 1950s.

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

La Jolla Playhouse recently opened a production of Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-winning play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." Set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, the story explores love, family, ...