Jemar Tisby: Public Lectures

The Religion Department is pleased to be co-sponsoring Jemar Tisby's visit to campus on March 24th and 25th. Tisby is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (2019) and How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice (2021).

Jemar Tisby grew up just north of Chicago and attended the University of Notre Dame before going on to join Teach For America in the Mississippi Delta Corps where he taught sixth grade at a public charter school and later went on to be the principal. He received his Master of Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary and is working toward his doctorate in History at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the 20th century.

He speaks nationwide at churches, conferences, and colleges and his writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and CNN. Tisby is the president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective and also a co-host of the “Pass The Mic” podcast.

His “Color of Compromise” lecture on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Myers Convocation Center and his “Fierce Urgency of Now” sermon on Thursday, March 25 at 8 p.m. in Miller Chapel are open to the public with both in-person seating and an online livestream. Prior registration for either is required and can be completed at www.ashland.edu/color-of-compromise