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The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...
A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...
There's an ongoing attempt to erase knowledge of these atrocities and pretend as if they were just figments of Black folks’ ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...
Harvard University will relinquish the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, ending a decades-long ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people ...
Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in ...
The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...
Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...
A Norwich woman’s 14-year campaign to get Harvard University to give up photographs of two enslaved people she believes were her ancestors — who were forced to pose half-naked by a Harvard “scientist” ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.
Tamara Lanier has reached a landmark settlement with Harvard, over 19th-century photos of her enslaved ancestors, Renty and ...