#tamara lanier

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Woman suing Harvard over slave portraits gets key support

Woman suing Harvard over slave portraits gets key support

In this March 20, 2019 file photo Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club, in New York. Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., is suing the Harvard University for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation” of images she says depict two of her ancestors. Descendants of a Harvard professor who commissioned a series of 1850 photos of slaves say they’re backing the lawsuit…

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[kammartinez]

Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University 

In the aftermath of the school’s agreement to relinquish the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, Lanier spoke to Hyperallergic about h

[kamreadsandrecs]

Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University 

In the aftermath of the school’s agreement to relinquish the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, Lanier spoke to Hyperallergic about h

[qupritsuvwix]

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement

Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning p

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From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

By Tamara Lanier.

Design by Anna Kochman.

Cover art by Mark Harris.

[authorkims]

A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story.

The images are among the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in America. Tamara Lanier’s fight to gain control of them shows there i

Oklahoma teachers don't know if it's legal to teach "Killers of the Flower Moon"

"Soft censorship."

[probably-lucifer]

On Philip DeFranco’s “Why Harvard Is Being Sued Over This 169-Year-Old Slave Photo…” video

I don't know how to explain to y'all the way this comment section makes me feel, the way this whole thing makes me feel... 

Yes, she should be given the original photo of her ancestor and NO you don't get to argue that what the fuck is wrong with y'all? 

You wanna keep seeing that picture fine, but use the alternate images, the pictures of that picture, you don’t need the fucking original you jackasses, she deserves to be able to put that picture in an album to one day pull out while she teaches the children around her that slavery isn't just some event that happened, but that it happened to our her ancestors barely a century and a half ago, is still happening in certain countries.

I, who the fuck do you think you are to tell her, OR ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER, that they don't deserve physical representation of their ancestors' memories and lives?? 

Do you know how much it hurts to see pictures of my however-many-great grandfathers on my mother's side and yet see NOTHING of my father's side? 

Do any of you understand what that hurts like? 

To not know where in the whole damned world you actually came from? 

Who in the world you are? 

Do you know anything even similar to that? I didn't think so, now sit down, shut up, and give Tamara Lanier her pictures back