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It Was Never about Abortion (opens the original)
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For decades, the religious right told Christians that abortion was the one issue that outweighed every other. Yet ICE recorded at least 18 miscarriages in its custody from January through September 2025, then lost count, and the movement's loudest voices have barely said a word. In this episode of The Justice Briefing , Dr. Tisby asks why an unborn child's life should matter less because their mother is an immigrant, and how race shaped the religious right from the start. In 1971, the Southern B
Storytime with Dr. Tisby: Three Reconstruction Era Stories About What Democracy Takes (opens the original)
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This episode of The Justice Briefing is different. Instead of starting with a current event and working backward to the history, Dr. Jemar Tisby does what he loves most: he tells stories. Diving back into primary source research for his new Substack series, History Rhymes: Democracy and Voting Rights Edition , left him feeling like a grad student again, brimming with material he could not wait to share. So he devoted a full episode to three of those stories. The first is about the Congress that
Everything You Were Never Taught About the Voting Rights Act (opens the original)
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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. What took blood and marches to win in 1965 has been taken apart in the thirteen years since 2013, from Shelby County to Louisiana v. Callais, and almost nobody marched. Dr. Tisby refuses to end there. He points to the faith leaders already mobilizing to protect the ballot before the November midterms, from William Barber's 100 days of action to the poll ch
Stop Telling Black Voters to Wait (opens the original)
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The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee just voted to have South Carolina lead off the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries, and Dr. Jemar Tisby explains why that decision matters more than the news cycle will let on. He walks through what a primary actually does, why the order of states determines momentum, money, and makes the case that this is a win for the party. In this episode: What a primary actually is, and why it is not a direct vote for the nominee Why the order of states determines mom
Why "Objective" History Is a Myth (opens the original)
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On the Fourth of July, the White House released a 160-page report accusing the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History of "ideological capture." In this episode of The Justice Briefing, Dr. Jemar Tisby reads the report's own words, walks through the two congressional hearings it triggered, and makes the historian's case that the charge is a confession. His argument is simple: there is no such thing as objective history. Facts are objective, but facts do not interpret themselves, and in
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