Meet the New Intern: Julia Shapiro
Please welcome Julia Shapiro, summer intern at the Center for Freethought Equality! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I am a rising junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, studying history... Read More
Betsy Devos’s Title IX Timeline: Rocky at Best, Disaster at Worst
When US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos announced her intention to restructure Title IX back in November of 2018, it left the educational community nervous and civil rights advocates on alert. Part of the Education... Read More
What’s a Celebrant to Do?
Charlotte Eulette, the international director of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute (CF&I), reached out to the Humanist Society to share her two decades of experience educating professional Life-Cycle Celebrants®. (Celebrants, generally speaking, are individuals who... Read More
Secular Student Alliance to Hold Virtual Graduation Celebration
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down. Nowhere is this more true than on college campuses. Seven weeks ago, colleges and universities began to close down in compliance with state and federal advice... Read More
Humanists Rejoice! It’s the National Day of Reason
On Friday, May 1, Congressional Freethought Caucus member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) introduced House Resolution 947 to recognize May 7, 2020, as the National Day of Reason. The resolution, introduced annually since 2015 and cosponsored this year by fellow caucus members... Read More
Inside the Walls: Humanist Pen Pal Program Helps Isolated Inmates
These days all we see is chaos due to the coronavirus pandemic. As each week passes, the world we see is so much different than the week before. This situation affects not only everyone on... Read More
COVID and Communities: How Are LGBTQ+ People Affected?
The American Humanist Association adopted a resolution in 2004 stating that the organization "reaffirms the validity of sexual equality and supports local, state, and federal action to legalize same-sex marriage.” With the outbreak of COVID-19,... Read More
