by lindaoppenheim | Jun 7, 2022
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. Free online film screening will be available to watch...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 26, 2022 | News
Harvard University published the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery that documents that “[d]uring the 17th and 18th centuries, the sale and trafficking of human beings—in slavery—and the industries rooted in the labor of...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 7, 2017 | Article
Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust opened “a major public conference exploring the long-neglected connections between universities and slavery. Harvard had been “directly complicit” in slavery, Ms. Faust acknowledged, before moving to a more present-minded...
