At this time last year, as students were returning to school after summer break, the American Humanist Association launched its Boycott the Pledge Campaign, encouraging students and adults to sit down during the Pledge of... Read More

In many states, including Maryland, law enforcement is prohibited from using racial profiling—targeting a person based on traits such as race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation—when making traffic stops, and racial profiling guidelines typically seem to... Read More

When religious individuals accuse atheists of having no morals, one fact atheists frequently cite is the miniscule percentage of atheists in US prisons. However, getting accurate, reliable data on the religious identities of US federal... Read More

The First in the Family Humanist Scholarship initiative, started in 2013 by Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA), provides resources to undocumented, foster care, homeless, and LGBTQ youth who will be the first in their families to go... Read More

“I’ve had men throw dollar bills at me in a professional office (by an employee who works at that company, during work hours). I’ve had an engineer on salary at a bootcamp message me to explicitly ‘be... Read More

Can you remember a time when you looked at the stars and felt so small that it made you feel like a better person? New research published by the American Psychological Association suggests that experiencing... Read More

For all the talk about reason and science, humanism is really about a passionate love affair. It is a love affair with life, not a mythical hereafter. Humanism is a love affair with a progressive... Read More