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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Everything You Were Never Taught About the Voting Rights Act
On the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Dr. Jemar Tisby closes a full history of the law by turning to the fight over it right now.
W...
Stop Telling Black Voters to Wait
The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee just voted to have South Carolina lead off the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries, and Dr. Jemar Tisby explai...
Why "Objective" History Is a Myth
On the Fourth of July, the White House released a 160-page report accusing the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History of "ideological captu...
How to Stop ICE from Killing People
What is the one thing every social movement must do before anything else? In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby argues that it is n...
What Mainstream Media Keep Getting Wrong about Douglas Wilson
NPR just gave Douglas Wilson another splashy, in-depth interview, and Dr. Jemar Tisby has a problem with it.
Not that the media covers Wilson:...
Why America 250 Needs a Theology of History
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, white Christian nationalists are telling their version of the story: that America was founded as a C...
Fourth of July Teach-In with Dr. Jemar Tisby
How should we think about the Fourth of July, a day dedicated to celebrating independence and freedom, in light of the unfreedom of race-based chattel...
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? The Honest Answer
As the country marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, one claim is everywhere: the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
Juneteenth vs. America 250
This week on The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby breaks down why Juneteenth and America 250 are not the same kind of anniversary, even though they f...
Racism, Patriarchy, and the Southern Baptist Convention
In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby breaks down the Southern Baptist Convention's recent vote to amend its constitution—by a 77 p...
How the Supreme Court Is Rigging the Midterm Elections
In this urgent episode of The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby breaks down the Supreme Court's latest ruling in Allen v. Milligan--a decision that al...
The Most Corrupt Senate Nominee in America Just Won
In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby examines the stunning victory of Ken Paxton in the Texas Republican Senate primary and asks w...
Why Isn't Your Pastor Talking about Voting Rights?
In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Jemar Tisby confronts a pressing question facing the American church: Why are so many pastors silent about vo...
The Anti-Christian Bias Task Force and Christian Privilege
The Trump Administration has released a massive new report from its “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias,” arguing that conservative Christian...
The Supreme Court and the Slow Death of the Voting Rights Act
Conservatives on the Supreme Court dealt what amounts to a “death blow” to the Voting Rights Act.
But you don’t have to be a legal scholar to un...
Doug Wilson and the Danger We Tried to Warn You About
In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Jemar Tisby examines the recent spotlight on Douglas Wilson—and why his influence is not new, just newly visi...
Stop Trying to Persuade White Christian Nationalists
In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby makes a clear and urgent case: stop trying to persuade white Christian nationalists. After ne...
The Birth of a New Kind of Christian Film Studio
People keep asking me, “How did it go?”
And I understand the question.
But there’s actually a better question.
The better question i...
Four Types of Christian Films
Right now the Christian film industry is dominated by what I’ve called “Devotional” films.
These films are often produced by people promoting a...
'Get Out,' 'Sinners,' and the Rise of Black Horror Films
The scariest thing about the movies Get Out and Sinners isn’t the body-snatching or the blood-sucking. It’s how accurately they show us what whiteness...
Why Democracy Needs the Church
What role should the church play in a moment of rising authoritarianism and political instability?
In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Jema...
Why White Christians Love James Talarico
Something strange happens whenever a certain kind of white Christian politician speaks about justice in public.
Suddenly commentators act like t...
Iran, Armageddon, and End Times Prophecy
In this episode of The Justice Briefing podcast, I talk about Iran, Armageddon, and End Times Prophecy.
I leave you with this thought:
A t...
How Black History Teaches Us to Resist Authoritarianism
You don’t have to cross an ocean, a continent, and cultures to 1930s Germany to learn how to resist authoritarianism
Black history is a witness...
Keep Hope Alive- Jesse Jackson's Moral Imagination
We lost another giant of human and civil rights.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. died on February 17 at the age of 84.
His passing gives us occasi...
Black History vs. Whitewashed Memory
For decades, the dominant interpretation of Reconstruction came from something called the Dunning School.
Named after William Archibald Dunning...
The Midterms Are Being Undermined Right Now
And your pastor probably doesn't know it.
The FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in an attempt to further investigate the discredited like that the...
We Have the Words of King But Not His Walk
We have the words of King but not his walk.
We quote King, but we do not live like him. We celebrate him but we don’t imitate him. We love King’...
Should We Disrupt Church Services?
About three dozen protestors entered the sanctuary of Cities Church in St. Paul and staged a protest so disruptive that they halted the service.
...
Beyond the Quotable King
In this episode, Dr. Jemar Tisby emphasize the importance of understanding Martin Luther King Jr. beyond his most famous quotes, especially as MLLK Da...
ICE Is What Happens When Americans Refuse to Learn from Black History
ICE is what happens when Americans refuse to learn from Black history.
In this episode, I respond to the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old U....
The Truth about the Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, but it did not “free the slaves.”
In truth, the Emancipation Proclamation wa...
Cultural Artifacts w/ G. Tyler Burns, Pt. 2
Cultural Artifacts is our version of a Top Ten list for the year.
My former podcast co-host G. Tyler Burns and I are back for part two.
Th...
Cultural Artifacts w/ Tyler Burns, Pt. 1
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
No. I’m not talking about Christmas (that’s wonderful, too).
But if you know me and my former po...
From the K K K to White Christian Nationalism
After countless hours studying Klan documents, rituals, speeches, and theology—and comparing them with what we see today—I am prepared to make this cl...
He's Got to Go
There are moments in a democracy when the choice becomes stark, the stakes undeniable, and the moral line unmistakable.
Recent events in our nat...
The Epstein Files and the Offensive Power of Truth-Telling
The truth is not valuable only when it produces political fallout. The truth matters because it is the truth.
If nothing else, we owe the surviv...
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...