Footnotes with Dr. Jemar Tisby
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Footnotes with Dr. Jemar Tisby
News comes at you fast. It’s not just hard to keep up with everything that’s happening, sometimes you don’t know which voices to trust to help you interpret what’s going on. That’s where Footnotes comes in. Dr. Tisby curates the week’s current events with a focus on issues related to Black communiti...
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What "Andor" Has to Say about U.S.
What can a Star Wars series teach us about authoritarianism, resistance, and the state of democracy in America?
In this episode of Footnotes, J...
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Dr. Beth Allison Barris the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University. She earned her PhD in Medieval History from the University of No...
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy with Katherine Stewart
In this episode of Footnotes, I sit down with investigative journalist Katherine Stewart to discuss her latest book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the...
Homestead Movie Review
In this episode, I take a closer look at Homestead, the post-apocalyptic drama from Angel Studios based on the novel Black Autumn. I explore its theme...
How to End Christian Nationalism with Amanda Tyler
On this episode I speak with Amanda Tyler, head of the BJC, a Baptist group that works for religious freedom for all, about her new book "How to End C...
A Conversation At Fuller Texas
Fuller Texas and the Pannell Center for Black Church Studies welcome author, speaker, and public historian, Dr. Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Co...
Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America
Joel Edward Goza dismantles the deep-seated myths that perpetuate white supremacy—and makes the case that reparations are necessary to heal America’s...
The Spirit of Justice
Dive into the pages of The Spirit of Justice and uncover the enduring power of faith and resistance in the fight for racial equality. Here are key the...
How to Talk to White People about Race
We are nearing 100 episodes! Let me know what you'd like to hear or see more of on the Footnotes podcast. Email: info@jemartisby.com
Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
Author interview!!! Caleb Cambpell has written a book you've probably been waiting for...
It's called "Disarming Leviathan: Loving...
Baptizing America with Rev. Dr. Brian Kaylor
We often frame the white Christian nationalism as a problem exclusively of far-right, fundamentalist evangelicalism. What we talk much less about is m...
The History and Significance of Juneteenth
Juneteenth became a national holiday in 2021. While many African Americans have celebrated the holiday for decades, many other people know little abou...
Empowered to Repair: A Conversation with Brenda Salter-McNeil
Dr. Jemar interviews Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter-McNeil about her latest book "Empowered to Repair: Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Co...
Reparations for Black Mental Health Counselors
In my second book, How to Fight Racism, I wrote a section called "Create a Pipeline of Mental Health Therapists of Color." In it I suggested that "you...
"The Exvangelicals": An Interview with NPR Reporter Sarah McCammon
There is a movement of people who grew up in evangelical Christianity out of those circles. These are ex-evangelicals or "exvangelicals."
"God & Country": An Interview with Director Dan Partland
I have often said, "White Christian nationalism is the greatest threat to democracy and the witness of the church in the United States today."
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The Spirit of Our Politics
Michael Wear is the author of The Spirit of Our Politics. It's a book that takes a fresh approach to how faith and politics should interact. Instead o...
Pre-orders for "The Spirit of Justice" Are Now Open!
Finally, finally, finally you can pre-order my latest book The Spirit of Justice: Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance!
This is a book for all...
Reflections on Northern Ireland
I went to Northern Ireland as part of an endeavor hosted by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Telos Group.
We were lookin...
Don't Tell Me What God Can't Do: Ronald Olivier and the 27 Summers in Angola Prison
In this episode I talk with first-time author Ronald Olivier whose life is a movie...or at least a book. He wrote "27 Summers: My Journey to Freedom,...
Getting Faith Leaders of Color Involved in Abolishing the Death Penalty
Racism, white supremacy, and the attempt to control Black bodies didn't go away after the Civil War. As I often say, "Racism never goes away, it adapt...
Heart on Fire an Interview with Dani Coke Balfour
How do you keep the flame of justice burning in the midst of so much misery and disappointment? A new book, Heart on Fire: 100 Meditations on Loving Y...
How Far to the Promised Land with Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley
On this episode of Footnotes, join me as I delve into an enlightening conversation with the esteemed author Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, discussing his hi...
Fighting Racism: Addressing Racial and Religious Trauma through Mental Health Care with Adebisi Gbadamosi
According to a Psychology Today article, racial and ethnic minorities represent 30 percent of the population, yet 83.6 percent of mental health profes...
Fighting Racism: Giving the Formerly Incarcerated a Chance at True Freedom with Stanley Frankart
The United States has five percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its incarcerated individuals. But the statistics only tell part of the...
Fighting Racism: Fighting Racism as a White Ally
Racism is not an ideology invented by people of African descent—people of European descent who are considered white hold that dubious distinction. So...
Fighting Racism: Racial Justice at Work and in the Environment with Abigail Oduol
In this episode we are going to talk with someone who knows all too well the challenges of environmental racism externally and the challenges of fight...
Fighting Racism: Confronting Racism in Homeschooling with Brytni McNeil
In this episode we hear what one homeschooling parent, Brytni McNeil is doing to create a more racially inclusive and honest culture in homeschooling....
Fighting Racism: Real Stories from Real People
“Welcome to the FIGHTING RACISM series, a project that explores how real people just like you are fighting racism in their everyday lives. My name is...
Christianity and Critical Race Theory
"Critical Race Theory has become a lightning rod in contemporary American politics and evangelical Christianity. This irenic book offers a critical bu...
More Than I Imagined- An Interview with CNN Journalist John Blake
In his new book, "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew", CNN journalist John Blake shares an intimat...
Homelessness, Mental Health, and How We Failed Jordan Neely
Jordan Neely used to dress up and do Michael Jackson impersonations. But on May 1, 2023, a Marine veteran on a subway train put him in a chokehold tha...
No Confession without Truth: The Firing of Professor Julie Moore
In what is becoming a disturbing pattern in Christian higher education, I was contacted by another professor who was fired for her teachings about rac...
Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation with Jon Ward
Jon Ward is senior political correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Tw...
They See You Now: Caitlin Clark vs Angel Reese
The 2023 women's NCAA championship game broke records for viewership, and racist reactions also broke the internet.
Two phenomenal playe...
They fired him, he's firing back: An interview with Professor Sam Joeckel
Professor Samuel Joeckel has been teaching a unit on racial justice at Palm Beach Atlantic University for twelve years. He has been a faculty member a...
Time with Fox and Rob
The twenty-one years that kept Rob separated from his wife, Fox, and their six sons was long enough. As Rob survived two decades at America's bloodies...
MLK's Economic Agenda
Not only have we reduced Martin Luther King's vision to a single line from his "I Have a Dream" speech, we have also forgotten or ignored his vision f...
Reflections on the January 6th Committee
Some thoughts about the Jan 6th Committee’s final hearing.
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“That Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed” an Interview with Charlie Cobb of SNCC
Charlie Cobb is a living legend of the Civil Rights movement. He has been an editor, a journalist and founding member of the National Association of B...