Congratulations to our 2024 First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Scholarship Awardees!
Although greater numbers of Black Gen Z youth are identifying as non-religious, mainstream media continue to focus on white “nones”. This presentation explores what informs the social, racial and gender justice critiques and viewpoints of young Black secular humanists, skeptics, and atheists.
Sikivu Hutchinson, Ph.D. is a Los Angeles-based educator, author, playwright and musician. She is a recipient of the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year award. Her books include: The Roar of Distant Engines (2023), a short story collection of speculative fiction, Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe (2021) a finalist for the Lambda Literary foundation’s 2023 drama awards, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020), White Nights, Black Paradise (2015), about the Peoples Temple and the 1978 Jonestown massacre. (Note: This work is both a book and a sold-out play produced at the Blue Door Theater in Culver City in November 2023), Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (2011) and Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles (2003).
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