Please welcome the newest addition to the American Humanist Association staff, Jan Melchior, graphic designer! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background?  I am a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New... Read More

For many, the Boy Scouts creates a space where kids can be among friends, explore nature, and take action to improve their local community. Unfortunately, the Boy Scouts hasn’t always been open to all, unlike... Read More

June means many things to many people. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, June means Pride Month, when many of the world's Pride festivals and parades occur to commemorate the June 1969... Read More

This past Sunday, on International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, a group of thirty women activists from fifteen different countries, WomenCrossDMZ, crossed the demilitarized zone (DMZ) starting from Pyongyang, North Korea into South Korea... Read More

From reading the news, one might think that money was raining from the skies over Los Angeles last week, after the City Council voted fourteen-to-one in favor of gradually raising the minimum wage from nine... Read More

I had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer and Tim Bailey, co-owners of Celebrating Times of Change, at their exhibitor booth at the American Humanist Association’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. Their exhibitor table was well... Read More

Today humanists, atheists and other nontheists across the nation will be observing the National Day of Reason, an alternative to the National Day of Prayer. This is the first year that a congressional resolution (House... Read More