Michael O’Neil speaks with ETFF’s very first guest (2002), Norm Allen Jr, executive Director of African Americans for Humanism (AAH). Norm is the editor of the ground-breaking book African-American Humanism: An Anthology, AAH Examiner, and an Associate Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. His most …recent book is The Black Humanist Experience.
This time, discussed will be Norm’s work with the skeptics’ movement in Africa, and the dynamics of religiosity in the black experience in the United States and abroad.
Norm discussed the campaign against witchcraft in Africa, and the mistaken universal assumption of religiosity in Black America and in the civil rights movement, citing counterexamples like A. Philip Randolph.