The number of births per year in the United States is at a record low. Last year the fertility rate fell to 60.2 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44, a 3 percent decrease from 2016.... Read More

The human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government against their ethnic Muslim Uyghur minority have been gaining significant media attention. With a population of fifteen million Uyghurs, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is located... Read More

Please welcome the American Humanist Association’s new social justice coordinator, Rachel Deitch! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2010 with an interdisciplinary major in... Read More

Please welcome the American Humanist Association’s new member services assistant, Courtney Murray! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I graduated from Howard University with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2011. I worked in... Read More

Last week the House Appropriations Committee voted in favor of a legislative amendment that would allow faith-based child welfare agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ people, interfaith couples, single parents, and others. The amendment was added... Read More

Please welcome the American Humanist Association’s new communications associate, Sarah Henry! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I graduated from Lynn University in South Florida with a degree in political science and photography. I... Read More

Being a newly formed chapter of the American Humanist Association, Harbor Humanists spent most of our first meetings deliberating and deciding where we wanted to spend our time and energy. Our members felt strongly that... Read More