Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...

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 ...

In the two centuries since the medium was invented, few photographs have had a more powerful impact on the American conscience than a series of images made in 1863 of a formerly enslaved man known by ...

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 ...

While African American slaves are responsible for building the landmarks in Washington, D.C., a Black self-taught ...

Harvard University has reached a settlement with a woman to end a long legal battle over slave photos. Tamara Lanier of Norwich, Connecticut claims she's a descendant of two of the slaves shown in the ...

President Donald Trump is reportedly having his administration remove photography related to slavery from national parks in the United States.

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

A House hearing erupted in anger following a decision by the Trump administration to remove a photo at a Georgia national monument. House Democrats accused the Trump administration of sanitizing ...

The administration's efforts to censor references to slavery and racist inequality appear to have ramped up with the reported ...