Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a ...

By turning to legal intervention, universities treat artifacts as intellectual property and miss important opportunities to ...

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. Harvard University, this week ...

Tamara Lanier identified the subjects of the photos as her direct ancestors from South Carolina Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography ...

Tamara Lanier takes questions during a press conference announcing a lawsuit against Harvard University on March 20, 2019 in New York City. Lanier has accused Harvard University of the wrongful ...

The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty,” and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody ...

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that African-descended people are inferior to White people.

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 ...

The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty," and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum ...

Tamara Lanier identified the subjects of the photos as her direct ancestors from South Carolina Harvard University will relinquish photographs of seven enslaved people to the International African ...