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Yes, Our Lives Are Intersectional: Reflections on the Secular Social Justice Conference
I had the honor of attending and participating as a speaker at the Secular Social Justice Conference held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, this past weekend. Co-organized by author Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson and Houston Black Nonbelievers... Read More
Humanism for the Twenty-First Century
The First in the Family Humanist Scholarship initiative, started in 2013 by Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA), provides resources to undocumented, foster care, homeless, and LGBTQ youth who will be the first in their families to go to... Read More
Outlaw Humanism
I'D LIKE TO THANK the American Humanist Association (Maggie Ardiente in particular) and Dr. Anthony B. Pinn for organizing the “Humanism and Race” panel at the 2015 AHA conference in Denver, Colorado, this past spring. I... Read More
Do All Black Lives Matter?
LAST YEAR I took my six-year-old daughter to a demonstration and die-in in Hollywood. Across the globe, protestors from every walk of life had converged to express their outrage over the double whammy non-indictments of the... Read More
Encountering an Exciting Brand of Humanism in Denver (and Yes, I Inhaled It)
[caption id="attachment_12424" align="alignleft" width="415"] 2015 Humanist Heroine Jean Kilbourne and AHA staff[/caption] I attended my ninth American Humanist Association conference last week (this was the 74th annual, held in Denver, Colorado) and I can tell you... Read More
Things to Do in Denver When You’re a Humanist
In just a couple of short weeks, the 74th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association will be in full swing in the “Mile-High City” of Denver, Colorado. We are thrilled to host so many great... Read More
Owning Up to Privilege and Moving Social Justice
“Here,” ordered the atheist/feminist author Sikivu Hutchinson, giving her impersonation of a member of the so-called New Atheism, “take this ‘We Are All Africans’ t-shirt and ticket to Darwin Day, and sit down and shut the... Read More
Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels
Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church/state separation,... Read More
Blackout Secular Rally: An Organizer’s Perspective
Mandisa Thomas, organizer of the first-ever outdoor event featuring nontheists of color, reports on the success of the event and the importance of secularism in the African American community. Also check out photos from the event... Read More
AHA Sponsors Black Skeptics
The American Humanist Association is proud to support Black Skeptics Los Angeles’s first annual “First in the Family Humanist Scholarship” by sponsoring one of four $500 scholarships, to be awarded to a college-bound Los Angeles Unified... Read More