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 ...

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

When Clarence Thomas was in college, he wore a beret, camouflage gear, and combat boots. He wanted to join the Black Panther Party and had a Malcolm poster on his bedroom wall, even memorizing some of ...