The Boston Globe

After legal battle with Harvard, woman’s quest to reclaim images of enslaved ancestors culminates in public museum display

Tamara Lanier’s long odyssey to research her family tree all the way back to “Papa Renty,” made in a promise to her dying mother 16 years ago, culminated Wednesday when historic photographs of her ...
The Washington Post

Descendants of enslaved man, plantation owner unearth past at Maryland cabin

Gwen Bankins, 61, stood in a hot, cramped cabin in Southern Maryland on a recent afternoon and thought about the lives that had passed through it. Nearly 180 years ago, her great-great-grandfather — ...
The Telegraph

Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle

FILE - Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club, on March 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old ...
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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending legal battle

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 a settlement ...
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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will ...