Tamara Lanier has reached a landmark settlement with Harvard, ending a years-long fight over 19th-century photos of her enslaved ancestors, Renty and Delia.

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Harvard's new free tuition initiative is meant to make college education accessible to more students.

The former president's tenure status matters.

When a Black woman is hired, what is the depth of the shift that these institutions truly desire?

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Neri Oxman, whose billionaire hudge fund manager husband led calls to remove Harvard's first Black president over alleged plagiarism, is apologizing for plagiarizing her MIT dissertation.

Right-wing mouthpieces took to social media calling Gay a diversity hire and using the moment to bash affirmative action.

Race Matters

Harvard University police officers held four Black undergraduate students at gunpoint while responding to a 911 call falsely alleging someone was armed.

A court ruled Harvard can be sued for profiting from photos of a woman's enslaved ancestors.

Actress Yara Shahidi has graduated from Harvard University.

Harvard University, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college with an endowment of over $50 billion, will partner with HBCUs and implement other strategies to try to make amends for their involvement in slavery.

Atlanta teenagers Jayla Jackson and Emani Stanton became the first Black girl duo to win Harvard University's debate competition.

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Cornel West made his disdain for Harvard University crystal clear with no uncertain terms in a public letter of resignation that condemned the Ivy League school for being in the "shadow of Jim Crow."