Black Skeptics COVID Rapid Response Grants: Apply by December 10
In times of crisis, secular communities of color, as well as queer and LGBTQIA+ communities, are often forced to rely on religious and faith-based institutions…
BSLA Featured: Five Great Humanist Groups Promoting Progressive Values
From: “Five Great Humanist Groups Promoting Progressive Values” By Gregg Parker “As a philosophy, humanism stresses the value and potential of people, especially as they…
2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award
The American Humanist Association is delighted to partner with the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard (HCH) to present the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award…
Congratulations to BSLA’s First in the Family Humanist 2020 Scholarship Winners
For the fifth year, Black Skeptics L.A. has partnered with the Freedom From Religion Foundation on BSLA’s First in the Family Humanist scholarship fund. FFRF…
Voting While Black, Secular and Gen Z: A Panel Discussion with Youth Activists
What’s at stake for Black secular Generation Z youth in this election? How are they mobilizing for progressive social change in a Black Lives Matter…
Trauma, Anti-Blackness and Going Insane with Rage
By Sikivu Hutchinson “I can’t breathe”. These words, now reverberating across the world in gruesome playback, were among the last uttered by George Floyd, a devoted son, friend,…
BSLA 2019 First in the Family Humanist Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to the six 2019 First in the Family Humanist and Catherine Fahringer scholarship winners!…
New Book: Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist and Heretical
Now available at Amazon, Indiebound and Barnes and Noble: Feminism and atheism are “dirty words” which Americans across the political spectrum love to hate and…
2013 First in the Family Humanist Awardee Hugo Cervantes: What This Scholarship Means To Me
My name is Hugo Cervantes, recipient of the Black Skeptics Los Angeles’s ‘First in the Family Humanist Scholarship’ in 2013. I graduated from the University…