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A Historic First: Women of Color Beyond Belief
The room was filled with a sea of melanin. Eager eyes scanned the room as hugs and kisses were being given with friendly greetings. On the conference room floor, a young adult pulled her father along... Read More
Five Fierce Humanists: Unapologetically Black Women Beyond Belief
Introduction by Christopher Cameron IT IS A WELL-KNOWN FACT that black women have served as the backbone of the black church since its inception. Black women raised funds for church buildings, evangelized for their churches around... Read More
I’ll Continue to Affirm that This Was a Failure of the Editor.
On May 7 a white woman at Yale called campus police on fellow graduate student Lolade Siyonbola, a black woman who had fallen asleep in the common room of the residence hall in which they both... Read More
Checking Humanism’s Privilege and Pulse
Sincere Kirabo has a background in social science and his critiques of social issues have been published in various media outlets, including the Humanist, Black Youth Project, the Establishment, and Everyday Feminism. In May 2017 Kirabo... Read More
#WeToo?
The secular community is having a #MeToo moment. Some say it’s about time. Others say not so fast. In 1915 the American suffragist and writer Alice Duer Miller published a slim and delightful book of poetry... Read More
Secular Social Justice 2018: Rehumanize, Decolonialize, Get Free
Last Saturday, April 7, over 100 people gathered at All Souls Church in Washington, DC, for the second biannual Secular Social Justice (SSJ) conference, where activists of color led discussions, shared ideas, and promoted strategies with... Read More
Humanist EDge: Dear Male Humanists, or a Feminist Manifesto in Ten Suggestions
Last fall I was granted a precious space to speak at an interfaith breakfast ahead of the Planned Parenthood Day of Action in Lansing, Michigan, as well as on an interfaith panel at the Women’s Convention... Read More
Guns in Schools: Who Would Be Aiming and Who Would Be Targeted?
In the three weeks since the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Americans, most notably students, have been advocating strongly for changing laws to curb gun violence. This raises questions about... Read More
Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie
In her groundbreaking new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Black lesbian activist attorney Andrea J. Ritchie builds on Angela Davis’s vision of feminist abolitionism to provide a commanding analysis... Read More
Don’t Celebrate Black History Month without Creating Paths toward Free Black Futures
Today marks the official start to another twenty-eight-day cycle where the media, public schools, and a considerable chunk of the U.S. population will reach into their Black History Month chest, dust off a few totems, and... Read More