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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.
A Norwich woman’s 14-year campaign to get Harvard University to give up photographs of two enslaved people she believes were her ancestors — who were forced to pose half-naked by a Harvard “scientist” ...
Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...
Harvard University has agreed to turn over 175-year-old photographs of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina, ending ...
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...
Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal ...
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The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...
This is a day of reckoning 175 years in the making,” said Josh Koskoff, co-counsel on the case. “This is not just an unlikely personal victory for the Lanier family; it is also a win for the ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in her favor in 2022, stating that “Harvard’s present obligations cannot be divorced from its past abuses.” “Papa Renty was taken from his descendants and used to ...
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.
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...