Black Skeptics Receives Culver City Council 2026 Performing Arts Grant Award
We’re pleased to announce that Black Skeptics L.A. is among 26 organizations that were awarded Performing Arts Grants this year! The Culver City City Council…
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Black LGBTQIA+ Youth Institute 2025: Creating Safe Spaces for Queer Youth
By Brianna Simone Parnell This year’s Women’s Leadership Project (WLP)-sponsored Black LGBTQIA+ Institute was truly one to remember. Not only because it was made possible…
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Alpha Centauri: Film Screening and Discussion Features Black Freethinker Protagonist
Written and directed by Sikivu Hutchinson, Alpha Centauri* is a prevention education film focusing on the disproportionate impact of grooming and sex trafficking on Black girls and…
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Black LGBTQIA+ Youth Institute @ UCLA
WLP’s sixth annual Black LGBTQIA+ Youth institute will focus on mentoring, career readiness, leadership and mental health for Black queer youth in middle school, high…
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Black Girls’ Guide to Humanism Podcast: Black Gen Z Secular Views
Sikivu Hutchinson and Monica Burns discuss the impact of the current national and cultural climate on Black secular Gen Z youth with Black secular college…
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Congratulations to Our 2025 BSLA First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Scholarship Awardees!
In the midst of Trump administration backlash against and attacks on racial, social and educational justice in K-12 and higher education, support for African American…
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Black Secular Representation Matters: BSLA Scholarship Awardee Alviana Anderson!
Our 2025 BSLA First in the Family Humanist scholarship awardees have been selected! This year’s seven secular scholars are ALL African American and predominantly LGBTQ+-identifying.…
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September Humanist Spark Summit Collaboration: Amplifying Secular Youth
Over thirty percent of Gen Z youth identify as non-religious. In September, a collective of local and national secular organizations will launch the virtual Humanist…
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#Standing4BlackGirls East Coast Benefit Concert with Berklee College’s Jazz and Gender Justice Institute
On July 26th, the Women’s Leadership Project will partner with the Berklee College of Music’s Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, (headed by acclaimed drummer…
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Congratulations to the 2025 Lorraine Hansberry Humanist Scholarship Awardees!
Named after Black queer playwright, activist and freethinker Lorraine Hansberry, the Women’s Leadership Project and BSLA’s Lorraine…
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