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 agreed to give up ownership of two portraits of enslaved people, ending a six-year legal fight with a woman who says she’s their descendant, The New York Times reported.

A key question of the case was whether Harvard could legally be allowed to continue owning dehumanizing images of enslaved people who couldn’t consent to taking part.

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

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African ...

The U.S. Mint has issued new quarters celebrating the contributions of African American women. Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Bessie Coleman, and Pauli Murray are featured.

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in ...

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

The collection, from board member Ira Brind, will be available at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 2026.