The girl, Joshlin Smith, is still missing, and the case has haunted South Africa. Prosecutors said that the mother was ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...

A key question of the case was whether Harvard could legally be allowed to continue owning dehumanizing images of enslaved people who couldn’t consent to taking part.

The court heard Racquel "Kelly" Smith, her boyfriend and a mutual friend sold the girl to a traditional healer, who was interested in her green eyes and fair complexion.

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

A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by ...

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...

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

Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s.   Tamara Lanier, the ...