Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the two centuries since the medium was invented, few photographs have had a more powerful impact on the American conscience ...

After years of legal challenges, photos of an enslaved man and his daughter held at a Harvard University museum will be transferred to an African American museum in South Carolina where the family is ...

Trump’s efforts to remove Blacks from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of ...

More than 400 years have passed since chattel slavery was deemed a respectable and integral part of the American economy and policy. Still, there are folks who try to rewrite history and “whitewash” ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...

Donald Trump has ordered a park dedicated to Civil War history to remove a photo of a formerly enslaved man. The Trump administration’s censorship campaign has extended to the National Park Service.

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina. By Clyde ...