Harvard University does not have to hand over a set of 19th-century daguerreotypes, thought to be among the first photographs of enslaved people in America, to one of the subject’s ancestors, a ...

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (the state’s highest court) recently issued a surprising decision that permits claims against Harvard arising out of a series of daguerreotypes taken of the ...

A fallen statue of Louis Agassiz, the Harvard Professor who commissioned the daguerreotypes of Tamara Lanier's enslaved ancestors in 1850. The statue, at Stanford University, famously fell and landed ...

A documentary on a Black woman trying to reclaim her family’s history by suing Harvard University over its possession of photographs depicting her enslaved ancestors premiered Friday at a Harvard ...

Harvard University will relinquish the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, ending a decades-long quest by the great-great-great-granddaughter of the enslaved people to ...

A Massachusetts court issued its opinion today, June 23, on the landmark case of Tamara Lanier, who sued Harvard University over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors housed at the school's Peabody ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement ...

Tamara Lanier, left, holds a photo of her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, and talks with attorney Ben Crump, center, and Susanna Moore, the great-great-great-granddaughter of the Harvard ...

NORWICH, Conn. (WTNH) — A Norwich woman is claiming victory Thursday night after Harvard agrees to relinquish possession of early photographs of slaves. Tamara Lanier says Renty, a slave in South ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of ...

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a ...