Media
"What if Emmett Till Had Lived? A Harvard Professor Turns the Question Into a Book and Exhibit," interview with Celine Hijazi, The Boston Globe
"Features: If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground," The Week US
"New Chicago Exhibit Asks Us to Imagine What If Emmett Till Lived," by Anya Sesay, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"The Legacy of Emmett Till," by Charlotte Burns, Financial Times
"What If Emmett Till Had Made It Safely Home?," by Eileen O'Grady, The FAS Current
"Sarah Lewis: Documenting Culture," by Sarah Cascone, TIME100 Art 2026
"10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Fall," by Natalie Jenkins, Hyperallergic
"What If Emmett Till Had Lived? A New Exhibition Imagines an Alternate Future for the Murdered Black Teenager," by Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Mag
"'He Would Have Been the Center of Everything': The Art Exhibition Imagining If Emmett Till Lived," by Briana Ellis-Gibbs, The Guardian
"The Power of Witnessing’: Chicago Exhibition Explores Emmett Till’s Stolen Life," Connect with Jacob Soboroff, MSNOW
"New Chicago Exhibit Shows What Emmett Till's Life Would Have Looked Like Had Murder Not Happened," by Leah Hope, ABC7 Chicago
"A New Photo Exhibit Asks a Heartbreaking Question: What If Emmett Till Had Lived?," by Eve Batey, Vanity Fair
"New Photography Exhibit Honoring Emmett Till’s Legacy Opens at Columbia College," by Jewell Hillery and Marisa Rodriguez, WGNTV
"New Photography Exhibit at Columbia College Imagines Life of Emmett Till If He Had Lived," by Carolina Garibay, WBBM News Radio
"An Exhibition Imagines Emmett Till’s Life If It Hadn’t Been Brutally Cut Short," by Ruth Lopez, The Art Newspaper
"If Emmett Till Lived Offers a Vision of Black Life Lived to its Fullest," by Skylar Mitchell, ESSENCE
“If Emmett Till Lived: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi," interview with Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
"Book Reimagines Emmett Till’s Life Had He Lived," by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today
"‘He Speaks Louder in Death': A New Exhibit Explores the Life Emmett Till Could Have Lived," Sarah Lewis and Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. interview with Christiane Amanpour, CNN
"If Emmett Till Had Lived, What Might He Have Seen?," by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Style
"How to Tell the Story of American Racism? Alabama's Legacy Sites Offer 'Powerful' Approach," by Eileen O'Grady, The FAS Current
"Sarah Lewis Shapes Narratives," by Mia Tavares, Harvard Independent
"Trump Says He Is the 'Least Racist' President. But His Term Echoes a Grim Past," by Erica L. Green, The New York Times
"Sarah Lewis Sees the Role Art Has to Play in Justice," by Olivia B. Waxman, TIME
"Photography Scholar Sarah Lewis to Organize Exhibition Asking ‘What If Emmett Till Lived?,’" by Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews
“Coreen Simpson’s Multifaceted Approach to Art Making,” by Melinda Fakuade, T, The New York Times Style Magazine
"Local Authors Honored with American Book Awards," by Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
"The Reckless Creation of Whiteness," by Erin L. Thompson, The Nation
“Maurice Berger Held a Mirror to a Racist Art World,” by Holly Bass, The New York Times
“How Image and the Arts Help Create a Just Society,” by Keishel A. Williams, The Emancipator
“This Photo Book Sparks a Powerful Conversation About Racial Equality,” by Kilofer Khan, The Phoblographer
“Sarah Lewis on Ways of Seeing Race in America,” interview with Folasade Ologundudu, Hyperallergic
“Maurice Berger Saw Visual Literacy as a Means Toward Racial Literacy,” by Emmanuel Iduma, Art in America
“The Best Black History Books of 2024,” Black Perspectives
“10 Best Books of 2024,” Chicago Tribune
“The 30 Best Art Books of 2024,” Hyperallergic
“Sarah Lewis’s New Book Shows How Photography Taught Americans to “See” Race,” by Emmanuel Iduma, Art in America
“18 Art Books to Read This Fall," Hyperallergic
“The 60 Must-Read Books of Fall 2024,” Town & Country Magazine
“‘We can love all of the United States without lying about it,’ says Harvard professor Sarah Lewis,” by Brooke Hauser, The Boston Globe
“Learning Not to See,” The Ink
“Sports Psychology for Everyday Life,” NPR's TED Radio Hour Podcast
“Suzanne Nossel Is Heartened by ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life,'” The New York Times
“The Next Big Idea Club’s September 2024 Must-Read Books,” Next Big Idea Club
"Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon," by Arthur Lubow, The New York Times
“Giving Carrie Mae Weems her due,” by Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, The Harvard Gazette
“The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weems’s Vision,” by Allison Conner, Hyperallergic
“The Must-Read Books of Summer 2021,” Town & Country
“Carrie Mae Weems and the Long History of Collective Self-Institutionalization Among Black Radicals,” by Thomas J. Lax, Lit Hub
"Art Historian Sarah Lewis on Why Black Artists Have Been ‘Over-Exhibited and Under-Theorized,’" by Folasade Ologundudu, artnet
"Understanding Race and History Through Photography," by James Estrin, The New York Times
“Celebrating Black Culture with a Careful Eye,” by Sandra Stevenson, The New York Times
“These Images of the Black Experience Offer a Corrective to the Lily-White Photo World,” by Winslow Laroche, VICE Magazine
“How Contemporary Photography Is Changing The Image Of Blackness In America,” by Priscilla Frank, The Huffington Post
“Curating a Visual Record,” by Jill Radsken, The Harvard Gazette
“Addressing the Representation of Black Culture in Photography,” by Lucia de Stefani, TIME
“How Photography Can Transform Social Justice In America,” by Diana Budds, Fast Company
“Reclaiming the Photographic Narrative of African Americans,” by James Estrin, The New York Times
“Magazine Photos Give a New Sense Of African-American Lives,” by Ralph Gardner, Jr., The Wall Street Journal
“Book Review: 'The Rise' by Sarah Lewis,” by A. Roger Ekirch, The Wall Street Journal
“Epic Fail,” by Scott A. Sandage, The New York Times
“Author Sarah Lewis Interview,” Late Night with Seth Meyers
"Sarah Lewis Co-Curates the SITE Santa Fe Biennial," by Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue