In the book Pictures With Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Tanya Sheehan discusses the work of black photographers such as Cornelius M.

Harvard calls the situation "complex" as they still have not been able to confirm Lanier's relation to the enslaved persons.

Harvard to International African American Museum, something a descendant calls a victory for reparative justice.

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

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

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of ... statement that spotlighting early African American photographers will ...

says Eleanor Jones Harvey, a senior curator here at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She points to a portrait made in 1859 of an African ... images showing Brady and other early ...

A fascinating new collection of family portraits from the early 1900s depicts the lives of African Americans in ... Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard ...

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...