Podcasts about sikivu

We NEED to respond to Mandisa and the BN affiliates response (non-response). Mandisa always talks about hating hypocrites and she is the bigget hypocrite of them all. I guess accountability and responsibility are for everyone but her. I couldn't make this up if I wanted to. They (Mandisa Lateefah Thomas and the BN Affiliates) are basically gaslighting YOU! The next round of gaslighting central will focus on restorative justice. Sikivu Hutchinson has already laid the groundwork to restore Mandisa to her rightful place of touch not thine anointed one. Raina and I have pointed out that Sikivu and many others are complicit.  Predators of any sort should not be tolerated. However, with some of these people, they want the same treatment given to white men in particular. They will do anything to maintain their proximity to whiteness. We've been warning you about this since 2012. You got angry with us, but that's fine too... We really need to talk about sex cults and the harm that they inflict. It's same type of setup that the church has in regards to venerating the leader and anyone who disagrees is disfellowshipped and tossed out like trash.  People who are leaving religion need a soft place to land, but that's not in someones bed. They have been manipulated and exploited enough. 

I interview Sikivu Hutchinson, author of Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical. For more about Sikivu and her work visit SikivuHutchinson.com. Theme music courtesy of Body Found. Follow American Freethought on the intertubes: Website: AmericanFreethought.com  Twitter: @AMERFREETHOUGHT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21523473365/ Libsyn Classic Feed: https://americanfreethought.libsyn.com/rss Contact: john@americanfreethought.com Support the Podcast: PayPal funds to sniderishere@gmail.com

*Apologies for the sound quality*   Mfalme Sikivu is an incarcerated scholar and mentor. He is fighting the carceral state from the inside and needs outside support. Mfalme and a team of outside supporters are pushing Governor Cuomo of NY to grant him clemency in 2019.   Mfalme has three cases pending against DOCCS; one which urges DOCCS to organize his mentoring organization, Ujamaa Fraternal Dynasty (UFD), and two cases to expose the inhumane treatment of our incarcerated comrades by COs and staff. Please visit his facebook page for ways to get involved    We are also doing coordinated phone calls to push Cuomo to free Mfalme and Jalil Muntaqim on every Friday from 1-3 PM.   You can write to Mfalme at the following address   Dontie Mitchell #98A0071 Great Meadow Correctional Facility PO Box 51 Comstock, NY 12821-0051  

About My Federal Lawsuit (3:46) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

My Life is Worth Just as Much as Yours (6:41) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

I Belong In The World Doing Good Things (3:46) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Prisons are Designed to Control the Poor (4:37) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Save Tax Dollars Through Prison Reform (4:08) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

American Hipocrisy (3:51) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Family Matters (2:53) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

It Gets Real (4:51) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu

The Meaning of Ujamaa (3:56) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Rest In Peace Marcello and Javon (2:58) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu

Open Letter to Meek Mills and Jay-Z (3:35) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu

I Ain't Luna the Dog but I am Human (2:06) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Why Gangs Proliferate (3:41) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Mass Incarceration: One of the Biggest Rackets in America (3:32) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Little Rico (2:33) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

About Splash (2:56) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Standing Alone (3:08) Dontie Mitchell "Mfalme Sikivu"

Educator and author Sikivu Hutchinson, founder of Black Skeptics of Los Angeles (BSLA), describes the four new winners of FFRF's and BSLA's "Catherine Fahringer Memorial Student Scholarships" for students of color. After hearing the "freethought" lyrics of "Dancing In The Dark," we time-travel back to 2006, during Freethought Radio's first year of broadcast, to listen to our first interview with Ron Reagan, the atheist son of President Ronald Reagan.

Legal fellow Ryan Jayne updates us on FFRF’s New Jersey lawsuit challenging millions of “historic preservation” dollars handed to churches, many for the purpose of worship. We discuss a cross on a Kentucky city water tower, a cross on an Illinois war memorial, and government censorship of freethought speech. Then we interview feminist atheist author Sikivu Hutchinson about her new book, White Nights, Black Paradise, about Jim Jones's People’s Temple and the 1978 massacre at Jonestown.

Please join us Thursday evening as we discuss the Moving Social Justice Conference.  We trust that you left the conference feeling motivated, supported, and encouraged by the panels, speakers, and colleagues. This truly was a labor of love and we enjoyed meeting you and look forward to seeing online.  We are here to build relationships, coalitions, and collaborations.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at blackskeptics(at)gmail(dot)com or peopleofcolorbeyondfaith(at)gmail(dot)com. On behalf of Dr.Hutchinson, Donald Wright, Raina Rhoades, and Kimberly Veal we thank you for the motivation and support.  We look forward to bringing you more webcasts and our 2015 conference in Houston, Tx.  

This episode Derek tracked down Sikivu Hutchinson, a passionate skeptic and rights activist. Sikivu is the senior intergroup specialist for the Los Angles County Human Relations Commission, and the author of several books centering around race, gender, politics, and atheism in minority society within the United States. Her most recent book, 'Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels', attempts to shed light on the issues centering around minorities which often become overlooked by many in atheist communities and skeptic circles.

On this episode we tackle the subject of  "Feminism, Motherhood, and Religion: Does a good woman have to be a "godly" woman?" Special guests for tomorrow's episode will be American academic, humanist and feminist Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson and Jamaican author, atheist, and teacher Zay D. Green. Sikivu is the author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (2011), while Zay is the author of Christianity and Black Oppression: Duppy Know Who Fe Frighten (2012). This show is hosted by two of Jamaica's most outspoken secular humanists - Clive Forrester, linguist and professor at York University in Toronto, and Hilaire Sobers, human rights lawyer in Washington DC. We have spent copious amounts of time debating with and challening the notion that Christian privelege should proceed unchecked in Jamaica, and have successfully managed to rally a group of other secularists to collaborate on a publication (forthcoming 2013). This radio show provides a medium in which skeptics can discuss matters of science, critical thinking, religious imposition, and the seperation of church and state all from a Jamaican perspective, but playing close attention to the interconnectedness on the global landscape. Tune in as we tackle the big questions each and every Sunday at 12:30EST (1:30PM Jamaican time) - lively banter, music and trivia, probing questions... we are Yardie Skeptics.  Contact us at yardieskeptics@gmail.com.

Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (Infidel Books, 2013), Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson critiques the mainstream atheist movement's lack of diversity and uncovers some of the reasons why African-Americans seem so connected to religion. She reveals that racism and social and economic disadvantage has led to a dearth of resources in black communities – a gap that churches often end up filling. Though there is a strong tradition of African-American secular humanism, it has focused on social justice issues and the intersection of racism, classism, capitalism and religion, topics usually ignored by the media and the mainstream secular movement. Dr. Hutchinson also criticizes the new atheism's singularfocus on science and reason to the detriment of social justice and anti-racist consciousness. Sikivu's blog can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (Infidel Books, 2013), Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson critiques the mainstream atheist movement’s lack of diversity and uncovers some of the reasons why African-Americans seem so connected to religion. She reveals that racism and social and economic disadvantage has led to a dearth of resources in black communities – a gap that churches often end up filling. Though there is a strong tradition of African-American secular humanism, it has focused on social justice issues and the intersection of racism, classism, capitalism and religion, topics usually ignored by the media and the mainstream secular movement. Dr. Hutchinson also criticizes the new atheism’s singularfocus on science and reason to the detriment of social justice and anti-racist consciousness. Sikivu’s blog can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (Infidel Books, 2013), Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson critiques the mainstream atheist movement’s lack of diversity and uncovers some of the reasons why African-Americans seem so connected to religion. She reveals that racism and social and economic disadvantage has led to a dearth of resources in black communities – a gap that churches often end up filling. Though there is a strong tradition of African-American secular humanism, it has focused on social justice issues and the intersection of racism, classism, capitalism and religion, topics usually ignored by the media and the mainstream secular movement. Dr. Hutchinson also criticizes the new atheism’s singularfocus on science and reason to the detriment of social justice and anti-racist consciousness. Sikivu’s blog can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (Infidel Books, 2013), Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson critiques the mainstream atheist movement’s lack of diversity and uncovers some of the reasons why African-Americans seem so connected to religion. She reveals that racism and social and economic disadvantage has led to a dearth of resources in black communities – a gap that churches often end up filling. Though there is a strong tradition of African-American secular humanism, it has focused on social justice issues and the intersection of racism, classism, capitalism and religion, topics usually ignored by the media and the mainstream secular movement. Dr. Hutchinson also criticizes the new atheism’s singularfocus on science and reason to the detriment of social justice and anti-racist consciousness. Sikivu’s blog can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (Infidel Books, 2013), Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson critiques the mainstream atheist movement's lack of diversity and uncovers some of the reasons why African-Americans seem so connected to religion. She reveals that racism and social and economic disadvantage has led to a dearth of resources in black communities – a gap that churches often end up filling. Though there is a strong tradition of African-American secular humanism, it has focused on social justice issues and the intersection of racism, classism, capitalism and religion, topics usually ignored by the media and the mainstream secular movement. Dr. Hutchinson also criticizes the new atheism's singularfocus on science and reason to the detriment of social justice and anti-racist consciousness. Sikivu's blog can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Why does it seem like everyone in the atheist movement is white and male? Are African-American women less interested in secularism? In her book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (Infidel Books, 2013), Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson critiques the mainstream atheist movement’s lack of diversity and uncovers some of the reasons why African-Americans seem so connected to religion. She reveals that racism and social and economic disadvantage has led to a dearth of resources in black communities – a gap that churches often end up filling. Though there is a strong tradition of African-American secular humanism, it has focused on social justice issues and the intersection of racism, classism, capitalism and religion, topics usually ignored by the media and the mainstream secular movement. Dr. Hutchinson also criticizes the new atheism’s singularfocus on science and reason to the detriment of social justice and anti-racist consciousness. Sikivu’s blog can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices