At an early age, black girls are branded as public menaces. They are suspended and expelled for “defiance” at greater rates than white boys who commit actual felony offenses. They pack the juvenile halls and... Read More

Yesterday supporters of science and reason marked the 204th birthday of Charles Darwin as part of International Darwin Day, a project of the American Humanist Association, with hundreds of events around the world. In the... Read More

AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt writes in The Huffington Post this week on the need for more secular elected leaders to represent the growing number of “nones” in the United States. Click here to read... Read More

This article previously appeared in Humanist Network News on January 18, 2011. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only... Read More

Everyone, take a deep breath. The election is, at long last, over. That little ball of anxiety in your stomach that many of you probably got from worrying that Mitt Romney, who has supported the... Read More

As most nonreligious Americans know, this current Congress isn’t the biggest supporter of church-state separation or atheists in general. Bills favoring religious institutions or exempting them from discrimination laws are quite commonplace, as are attempts... Read More

In his latest Huffington Post article, AHA executive director Roy Speckhardt condemns recent efforts in Louisiana to allow public funding of religious private schools