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

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

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 ...

“This settlement now allows us to move forward towards that goal,” the university said. "While we are grateful to Ms. Lanier for sparking important conversations about these images, this was a ...

the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when the photos were taken, a lawyer for Lanier said Wednesday. The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle between Lanier and the nation’s most ...