Sitemap - 2024 - Footnotes by Jemar Tisby

Freedom's Eve: The Watch Night Service That Welcomed Emancipation

What MLK's Christmas Sermon Teaches Us about Hope and Peace

Book Me for Your Black History Month Event

The Black Women I'm Learning From

Catch the Replay: Office Hours

Office Hours- Link for Tonight

Office Hours: Examining White Christian Nationalism in the Cabinet

How MLK's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Inspires Us Today

Now Is a Season of Self-Preparation

Catch the Replay: Processing the Election and Our Emotions

Link for Tonight: Processing the Election and Our Emotions

I'm Still Not Okay

Why Democrats Lost the 2024 Presidential Election

My Post-Election Thoughts

I Am Tired

Vote Your Conscience

Frederick Douglass’ Realistic Advice about Voting

We Have a "Confessing Church" in the U.S. It's Called the Black Church.

Jemar Tisby: Advice For Single Issue Voters

In Search of Victory This Election

Here's the Recording from "Preparing Our Souls for the Election"

Zoom Link for "Preparing Our Souls for the Election"

Encouragement amid Uncertainty

Preparing Our Souls for the Election

The Spirit of Justice Picture Book and Young Readers Edition

Multiracial But Not Multicultural

Remember, You Are Not Alone

The Race Riot They Didn't Teach You

Faith and Democracy

The Backlash Against Charles Morgan Jr. After He Blamed ‘Good White Christians’ for the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

When Political Neutrality Becomes Idolatry

The Best Way to Support Your Favorite Author

The Spirit of Justice Video Essay

I Wonder What the Critics Will Say This Time?

Beware of Historical Appropriation

Starting Tonight at 8pm ET!

The Spirit of Justice

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

The Spirit of Justice

What Did Frederick Douglass Say about Voting?

The Spirit of Justice Book Trailer

Are Black Christians Who Vote for Democratic Candidates, Christians?

Encouraging Book Update

Now the Democratic Campaign Really Begins

You're Invited!

Can a Right-Wing Promise Keepers Keep Its Promise of Racial Reconciliation?

Disappointing Book Update

My Comments on the Evangelicals for Harris Call

How Mike Brown's Death Changed My Life

Megan Basham Needs to Learn More Black Church History

How Many Books Are Published Each Year?

When Safe Spaces Are Violated

Slavery Was a White People Problem

Power to the People

Before Kamala Harris, There Was Shirley Chisholm

Three Reasons You Should Watch the "God and Country" Film

Biden Steps Aside and Gives Democracy a Fighting Chance

Why You Need Therapy

What Black Lives Matter Has to Do with the Movie "Glory"

What JD Vance As Trump's VP Means

Self-Care and the Healing Power of Humor

Let's Watch a Movie!

What the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Frederick Douglass

The Supreme Court Repeats the Folly of the Post-Civil War Presidency

Tom Skinner

Presidential Debate 2024

This Weekend!

Who is Bill Pannell?

Reggie Jackson Reminds Us of the "Fierce Urgency of Now"

How Can We Celebrate Juneteenth When We Still Aren't Free?

A Juneteenth Teach-In

Before you celebrate Juneteenth, remember why we needed it in the first place.

Morning Pages

The War on Reparations

Medgar Evers' Murder Nearly Cost Myrlie Evers Her Life, Too

Three Reactions to the PCA Canceling David French

Thinking Peripatetically

On Pessimism and Politics

Stop Flying the Pan African Flag on Juneteenth

If You Believe in Something...

Welcome to The Convocation

George Floyd and the Routinization of Black Death

We Need More Black Mental Health Counselors

That Time Jerry Falwell Called Desmond Tutu a "Phony"

On Soft Mornings and Self-Care

Should Billy Graham Represent North Carolina in Statuary Hall?

A Virginia School Board Reinstated Confederate Names on Local Schools

Folks Will Mess Up Juneteenth...But That Doesn't Have to Be a Bad Thing

The Slaveholding, Pro-Confederate History of the Churchill Family of Churchill Downs

Why Don't Black People Have Any Asian Friends?

Here's the Link for Tonight

Black People Are Subjected to More Botched Executions than Any Other Group

Help Me Celebrate My Birthday!

Let's Watch a Movie...and Save Democracy

The Governor of Mississippi Once Again Declares April Confederate Heritage Month

Nice (White) Countries

You Cannot Offer a "Racially Indifferent" and "Gender-Neutral" Analysis in a Racist, Sexist Society

The Aftermath of MLK's Assassination

The "Cowboy Carter" Album Turns Rejection into Historical Recovery

Why Are So Many Children So Poor in a Nation that Is So Rich?

Three Years Ago We Stopped Harper Collins/Zondervan from Publishing the "God Bless the USA" Bible

Trump Wants You to Buy the "God Bless the USA" Bible

The Parable of the Large White Church

If What Happened to George Floyd Angered You, This Should Outrage You

Support for Trump among Black Americans Is Declining

What's the Difference Between a Black Christian Nationalist and a White Christian Nationalist?

Black History Month Is Over, So Now Is the Time to Start Planning for Next Year's BHM

This Is What You Sound Like When You Don't Really Have Any Black Friends

The 'White' in White Christian Nationalism

How to Watch the "God & Country" Documentary

About that Atlantic piece

You're Doing Black History Month Wrong

Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland

Copy Edits Are Done!!!

🚨Announcement: Pre-Orders for "The Spirit of Justice" Are Now OPEN!!!

🚨 Last Call!

Is White Christian Nationalism Christian?

10 Times Bernice King Reminded Us to Put Some Respect on Her Father's Name

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Reflections on My Trip to Northern Ireland

Claudine Gay and the Imperative of Black Institutions

How to Do a Year-in-Review