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A Centennial to Reckon With: Honoring Black Suffragists

by Anya Steinberg • 1 September 2020

The first ballots cast by women were lauded as a giant step for womankind. Following the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, women were allowed to do the unfathomable. Not only could... Read More

The White Imagination Must Be Bound

by Anya Steinberg • 23 June 2020

On Memorial Day, George Floyd became the latest Black life to be brutally taken at the hands of police officers. It happened after he was arrested for buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. There... Read More

Secular America Takes Action Today, So They Can Vote Tomorrow

by Janelle Cronk • 23 June 2020

Here in the US, a secular voting bloc could have powerful potential to influence local and national elections. Recognizing that fact, in 2018 Secular America Votes (a joint project of the Secular Student Alliance and... Read More

Coronavirus Exposes Racial Disparities

by Ashton P. Woods • 28 April 2020

In a recent op-ed for the Houston Chronicle, “Black People Should Feel Safe With a Face Mask, but We Don’t,” I wrote that I wake up every day “with the intention to live, but as... Read More

Fostering Discrimination: Will SCOTUS Allow Religion to Rule in Foster Care Placement?

by Liz Hayes • 28 April 2020

Like so many areas of society, the US child welfare system is feeling the effects of the novel coronavirus. A recent report by the Marshall Project sites family court closures and established foster parents wary... Read More

320 Miles: Will the Conservative Court Take Abortion Restrictions Too Far?

by Andrew Hulett • 28 April 2020

The push to protect reproductive rights has never been stronger, necessitated by the growing wave of conservative-leaning judges and religious conservatives trying to control what women do with their bodies. Yet, as anyone who walked... Read More

Spirit of the Law: Keeping Justice Alive in Red States

by Dustin Daniels • 25 February 2020

In January the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that a lawyer named David Fowler, representing the Family Action Council of Tennessee’s Constitutional Government Defense Fund, wrote letters to all ninety-five county clerks in the state... Read More

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