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Free Renty: Lanier vs. Harvard [Plays 5/15 at 4 p.m. and 5/18 at 2 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] David Grubin's powerful, compelling, eye-opening, informative, insightful, thought-provoking, unsettling, gut-wrenching, 94-minute, 2021 documentary that follows the lawsuit against complicit Harvard University in 2019 brought by doggedly determined Black business strategist and innovator Tamara Kearney Lanier, whose great-great-great grandfather is educated, Congo-born slave Papa Renty who was held captive on a South Carolina plantation and was forced by racist biologist, white supremacist, and Switzerland-born Harvard professor Louis Agassiz to have degrading daguerreotypes taken in 1850 of himself and his daughter Delia to prove the inferiority of the Black race to the benefit of Harvard University, in order to the have the exploitive, income-generating daguerreotype photographs returned to the Lanier family and consists of candid commentary by attorneys (such as Benjamin Crump, Preston Tisdale, Michael Koskoff, Mark Mardersian, Joshua Koskoff, Anton Metlitsky, Carey Reilly, Katie Mesner-Hage, Craig Smith, and Sean K. McElligott), Judge Camille F. Sarroff Jr., daughters Shonrael Lanier and Megan Lanier-Gomez, photograph historian and curator Brian Wallis, Brown University cultural theorist Tina Campt, researcher Scott Garst, Brown University photography scholar Arielle Aïsha Azoulay, reporter Ronald Mitchell, journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, historian Bernard Powers, Harvard Coalition to Free Renty members Samantha O'Sullivan and Meredith McKinney, Harvard Peabody Museum Acquisitions Curator Elinor Reichlin's husband Seymour Reichlin M.D., and Louis Agassiz descendants Marian Moore, Susanna Moore, and Eli Moore.
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