Last month, on July 1, coal mining industry titan Blackjewel collapsed into bankruptcy. On July 29, about twenty miners who had been previously employed by Blackjewel took up residence on the train tracks in Cumberland,... Read More

On the bustling streets of Kensington in London last week, one of the Black women I asked to comment on the recent election of Boris Johnson (who has been branded as Donald Trump’s British mini-me)... Read More

In the new trend of undemocratically electing heads of state, the United States and the United Kingdom seem to be on the vanguard of how far comparable governments can go. It would be a lie... Read More

Today marks the end of David Niose’s five-year tenure as director of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, which was launched in 2006 as the legal arm of the American Humanist Association (AHA). Niose graduated from... Read More

After Donald Trump became president, his cabinet and government agency appointments seemed to be pulled straight from the Divine Comedy, or more specifically, Dante’s Inferno. Scott Pruitt, fresh off of fights against the Environmental Protection... Read More

Why would a humanist family travel to see the Hill Cumorah Pageant—a live, outdoor performance about the Book of Mormon? Pure curiosity. Each July the Pageant brings about 100,000 people to Palmyra, New York, a... Read More

Donald Trump’s recent racist, sexist, nativist tirade against congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)—telling them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime... Read More