Sikivu Hutchinson
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson (page 3)
To Be Young, Gifted, Secular, and Black
Black youth who reject organized religion don’t have the social and economic benefits of white privilege to blunt their "apostasy." ALTHOUGH IN THE UNITED... Read More
Whose Bodies? Black Lives Matter and the Reproductive Justice Imperative
Over the past several years toxic canards like “abortion is black genocide” and “the most dangerous place for a black child is the womb,”... Read More
Book Excerpt: White Nights, Black Paradise
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a multiracial church with Pentecostal origins, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named... Read More
Do All Black Lives Matter?
LAST YEAR I took my six-year-old daughter to a demonstration and die-in in Hollywood. Across the globe, protestors from every walk of life had... Read More
Police Criminals & the Brutalization of Black Girls
In Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. Walker contrasts... Read More
Women “Equal” in STEM Hiring? Not So Fast
To all the white scientists reading this, raise your hand high if you’ve ever been mistaken for “the help” in your university or government-funded... Read More
College Not Prisons: Black Skeptics Los Angeles’ “First in the Family” Humanist Scholarship
In 2013, Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) spearheaded its First in the Family Humanist Scholarship initiative which provides resources to undocumented, foster care, homeless, and LGBTQ youth... Read More