A Civic Curriculum

Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum is a free, downloadable resource for anyone interested in gaining fresh perspectives and seeking the tools necessary for advancing social justice.

Released by Vision & Justice and Aperture, the curriculum includes 31 texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice. It was originally distributed to coincide with the Vision & Justice Convening in 2019, a two-day public event that brought together prominent activists, academics, and artists to consider the role of the arts in understanding race and justice.  

The civic curriculum features an interview between Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative; Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s essay on Frederick Douglass; and a poem by Amanda Gorman, the United States’ first National Youth Poet Laureate. Additional contributors include Elizabeth Alexander, Alexandra Bell, Robin Bernstein, LaToya Ruby Frazier, For Freedoms, Doreen St. Félix, Naomi Wadler, Darren Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis.