Tell us about your job. What are some of the ways it’s changed during the pandemic? I recently started working part-time a few days a week at a grocery store. My main duties include: disinfecting... Read More

Tell us about your job. What are some of the ways it’s changed during the pandemic? I’m a nurse practitioner providing primary care at a community clinic in Anacostia, in Southeast Washington, DC. We are... Read More

Longtime humanist activist Edd Doerr passed away on February 6, 2020. He was eighty-nine years old.  Born into a working-class Catholic family in the 1930s Midwest, Doerr was the oldest of four children. At sixteen,... Read More

"As long as the public school is used to recruit the child or to segregate the children according to religion or to use the truancy power of the public schools to make them go to... Read More

"I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary." —from Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River (1987)  ... Read More

“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.” –Butterfly McQueen, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 8, 1989 Butterfly McQueen was born Thelma MacQueen in Tampa, Florida, in January 1911. Her... Read More

Fortney H. “Pete” Stark Jr., the 2008 Humanist of the Year who served in the US House of Representatives representing California's 13th District for four decades, died on January 24 at his home in Harwood,... Read More