Footnotes by Jemar Tisby

1 week ago | jemartisby.substack.com | Jemar Tisby

I’ve got a slate of projects like this mini-documentary lined up. I just need the resources to produce them. You can make that happen. Become a paid subscriber today. What would it take for the U.S. government to imprison thousands of its own citizen…again? This is not a hypothetical question. After the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. invoked an old law—the Alien Enemies Act—to incarcerate more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent.

1 week ago | jemartisby.substack.com | Jemar Tisby

This is a bittersweet announcement, but you can continue to support my work here on Substack. Become a paid subscriber today. We stated the Pass The Mic podcast late in 2013, now—more than a decade later—the podcast as you’ve known it is coming to a close. We officially made the announcement on this week’s podcast: The End of an Era. This is not so much an ending, but an evolution.

2 weeks ago | jemartisby.substack.com | Jemar Tisby

I had to drop some tasks and re-arrange a bunch more to make this episode happen. It’s my joy to do it, but it is labor. Now’s your opportunity to support this kind of conversation that links art, faith, and politics. Become a paid subscriber. Can art reach people in ways that books, sermons, or news reports can’t? That’s the fundamental question I’ve been asking myself as I watch the Andor series streaming on Disney+.

2 weeks ago | jemartisby.substack.com | Jemar Tisby

I found myself thinking about it at odd times. During a walk. Driving in silence. Texting in the group chat. No. It wasn’t some heavy topic pertaining to justice or politics. It was the television series Andorstreaming on Disney+. Andor resonates so deeply because, even though it is set in a distant galaxy, it tells the truth about our own—how empires rise and what it costs to resist them.

3 weeks ago | jemartisby.substack.com | Jemar Tisby

You won’t find this kind of research often. One connecting present-day events with a very specific of rural, racial history. But this is part of my mission. If you want to support it, become a paid subscriber today. In 1923, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that would change the trajectory of civil rights jurisprudence in the United States. Moore v.