Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard

(2021)

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Synopsis

FREE RENTY tells the story of Tamara Lanier, an African American woman determined to force Harvard University to cede possession of daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. The daguerreotypes were commissioned in 1850 by a Harvard professor to prove the superiority of the white race. The images remain emblematic of America's failure to acknowledge the cruelty of slavery.

Cast

Tamara Lanier, Benjamin Crump, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ariella Azoulay