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 ...

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

The Nigerian American artist takes pencil and pastel to monumental scale. Her newest works are her most personal yet, and her ...

"Comparing being a redhead to being Black might feel edgy or even affirming to some," a licensed therapist told Newsweek.

the first African American woman to win a Senate race. These victories helped give rise to Obama’s own. Harold Washington served as an inspiration to Obama and looms heavily over the Chicago ...

This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold ...

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 ...