Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard Update

The Last Negroes at Harvard

Free Renty tells the story of her efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. This past Thursday the Massachusetts Surpeme Court ruled that Tamara Lanier COULD sue Harvard for EMOTIONAL DISTRESS over its possession of photographs that depict her enslaved ancestors. But, the Court justices affirmed a lower court’s DISMISSAL of Lanier's property claims to the photographs.