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For years, Black writers, educators, and activists have gone out of their way to explain how the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often appealed to by white-dominated media sources, by right- and left-wing white politicians, and... Read More

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, a city once known for steel mills, bootlegging, and brawls, has earned the right to feel proud again. Among its points of pride has been a declining homicide rate: in 2017 the number of... Read More

Humans aren’t perfect. We are, in fact, messy, with contradictory and ill-founded ideas. It follows that our social movements would be messy too. So, while it may be disappointing to learn that the human beings leading... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All inquiries are kept confidential. Keeping It Kosher: I’m a humanist married to a... Read More

Recently the state health department of Hawaii issued a warning to residents to avoid the Kaohaoha Gulch near the town of Ookala. The reason? It contained toxic levels of animal waste. The culprit, Big Island Dairy,... Read More

What if there was one activity that could benefit every student in every school across the nation? An activity that could improve grades and scores on standardized testing? An activity that would allow students to form... Read More

The American Humanist Association (AHA) board of directors, in accordance with by-laws and customs, recently elected new officers to fill the roles of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Board officers serve two-year terms and serve... Read More

"THERE HAVE DEFINITELY been a couple of times where I walked away from one our rallies and thought: Was that bad for the country? Did I just make things worse?" This is not what I’d expected... Read More

On the day the U.S. Supreme Court was to announce its decision in the Hobby Lobby case, I sat huddled around a computer with other staff and interns of the Secular Coalition for America waiting with... Read More

For many people, the idea of a conservative atheist seems like an oxymoron. One explanation could be that we mostly see popular atheist activists speaking out politically over progressive issues like marriage equality or abortion rights... Read More