This copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family’s patriarch. PHOTO ...

Those seeking irrefutable proof of the power of an image should look no further than the yearslong, highly publicized dispute over a selection of 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved Southerners.

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal ...

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There's an ongoing attempt to erase knowledge of these atrocities and pretend as if they were just figments of Black folks’ ...

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest ...

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.