Sarah Lewis is a Harvard professor and award-winning author whose scholarship explores how art and visual culture shape our understanding of race, citizenship, and democracy. She founded Vision & Justice on the belief that representation is not just an aesthetic concern but a civic one, and that changing what America sees is part of changing what America becomes.

This special dispatch from Vision & Justice introduces If Emmett Till Lived, a new exhibition, book, and website that invite audiences to imagine the life Emmett Till might have lived had returned home to Chicago from Mississippi in 1955.