National Baptist Convention USA
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Oct 13, 2026
Tavis SmileyHOST
King, uh, the respect, uh, and the welcome to Chicago that, that he deserved.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Uh, one of those preachers is a guy named J.H. Jackson, who was the longest serving president of the National Baptist Convention USA.
Tavis SmileyHOST
This is a true story I'm about to tell you.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Um, J.H. Jackson was the longest, uh, serving president of the National Baptist Convention.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Dr.
Tavis SmileyHOST
King, of course, uh, co-pastors Ebenezer in Atlanta with his father.
Tavis SmileyHOST
They are members of the National Baptist Convention USA.
Tavis SmileyHOST
I'm gonna make this story short.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
Last year, Ryan Burge, a political scientist who is one of the nation's foremost statisticians of religion, published an analysis of 22 Protestant denominations and found that all but four shifted to the right from 2020 to 2024, and some of them shifted rather significantly.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
The predominantly black National Baptist Convention had an immense rightward shift.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
In 2020, 10% of its members voted for Trump.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
In 2024, that percentage almost tripled to 29%.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
Last year, Ryan Burge, a political scientist who is one of the nation's foremost statisticians of religion, published an analysis of 22 Protestant denominations and found that all but four shifted to the right, from 2020 to 2024, and some of them shifted rather significantly.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
The predominantly black National Baptist Convention had an immense rightward shift.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
In 2020, 10% of its members voted for Trump.
Chuck StevensNARRATOR
In 2024, that percentage almost tripled to 29%.
Wayne ShepherdHOST
it's time for a break, and we've got more to talk about.
Wayne ShepherdHOST
And one of the points in the monthly update has to do with the National Baptist Convention and a speaker who showed up.
Wayne ShepherdHOST
So we'll talk about that coming up on The Public Square.
speaker_4NARRATOR
We will be right back for more on The Public Square.
Wayne ShepherdHOST
All right.
Wayne ShepherdHOST
So we've talked about two of the three issues that are in the monthly update.
Wayne ShepherdHOST
The third issue has to do with the National Baptist Convention, Dave.
Dave ZanottiHOST
And with AOC.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
As a 1973 issue of Jet Magazine chronicled, the court's opinion in Roe versus Wade was also initially met with criticism from within Black corners.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
After the decision in Roe was handed down, the Reverend J.H. Jackson President of the six million member National Baptist Convention.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
Really? Six million people? Holy crap.
Lucas J. MatherHOST
Damn.
Carlos KellyGUEST
...
Carlos KellyGUEST
in the National Baptist Convention.
Brandon McCraeHOST
Jesus.
Carlos KellyGUEST
William Ruff.
Brandon McCraeHOST
We here.
Brandon McCraeHOST
We here.
Carlos KellyGUEST
Ear- early, early on, um, ah, our church and the community was really heavy in the National Baptist Convention.
Brandon McCraeHOST
Ah.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
And it's not just the Catholic church, to be fair.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
Uh, just several months ago, she went to the National Baptist Convention, and in the National- to the Baptists, she told them that Jesus demands that they embrace all illegal aliens, that they embrace all transgendered boys and girls, that they embrace the pro-LGBTQ agenda, that Jesus supported socialized medicine, i.e. single-payer.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
Now, that may have been two thousand years ago when Jesus walked the Earth, but you see, he foresaw single-payer, according to these lunatics.
Jeff KuhnerHOST
He foresaw single-payer socialized healthcare two thousand years into the future, and I guess telepathically or spiritually or the Holy Spirit or whatever, someone is speaking to AOC, telling her Jesus wants a socialist revolution in America.
Nate WilcoxHOST
And one of the things that's interesting is he never disavowed blues music or, or criticized blues musicians for doing what they did.
Nate WilcoxHOST
He, of course, abandoned it to sing and, you know, worked at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago for many, many years and, and was the head of, uh, National Gospel Convention, the National Baptist Convention.
Nate WilcoxHOST
No, I'm getting the name wrong.
Nate WilcoxHOST
I've got it down in my notes.
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Garrett CashGUEST
He wasn't worthy.
Garrett CashGUEST
And so, you know, he's struggling to try to find his place.
Nate WilcoxHOST
Yeah, and he has an experience of seeing a guy named William Nix at the National Baptist Convention in 1921 doing a song called I Do, Don't You.
Nate WilcoxHOST
And that has a big impact on him, and that's when he starts, I think, thinking about doing spiritual music as a possibility.
Dan BrockwayGUEST
The denomination as a whole can't really take a stance on much of anything.
Dan BrockwayGUEST
So what you find among American Baptists and National Baptists and some of the other smaller Baptist denominations is a lot of individual congregations that are very active in their community, advocating for important causes.
Dan BrockwayGUEST
But the denomination as a whole often can't really make a statement on anything because it's not top-down, it's bottom-up.
Dan BrockwayGUEST
And sometimes our emphasis on the personal individual side of faith, actually deciding what church you're gonna go to, to root back to our history, sometimes that gets a little too extreme, and it leads to a real downplaying of the communal and the importance of the richness of our tradition and the being part of the community of faith.
Michael HolzmanHOST
Okay, so Vernon, tell me about the Baptist tradition in the African-American community.
Vernon WaltonGUEST
So I am a part of the National Baptist Convention, USA Incorporated.
Vernon WaltonGUEST
It is the oldest.
Vernon WaltonGUEST
It is the largest centered Baptist denomination.
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