By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Administrator One of the interactions with people in Ghana that I find difficult is when people—strangers—ask me to give them things. It’s quite common. In […]
By George Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer While it’s one of the phrases of the day, throughout my life I never thought that white privilege applied to me. Dad finished the 8th […]
By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer We have arrived in Ghana for our year of volunteer work with the Humanist Service Corps. Leading up to my departure I researched West […]
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Feminism is essentially the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie famously said and Beyoncé quoted. While […]
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was always the only brown kid in my class. Growing up in a town of fewer than four thousand that counted demographics by person […]
By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Transportation is one of my favorite parts of traveling. Mundane forms of transportation for locals in other countries seem new and unusual to me and […]
By Matan Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer An open courtyard. A tin roof rusted red. A useless fan hangs from a wooden scaffold, its cords frayed vine-like. A woman sweeps the yard, […]
I am used to watching ethnic conflict from afar: reading about Tibetan riots in the newspapers, and thinking about policy proposals to address structural inequalities. But when the verdict of “not […]
By Raj Gopal Rutgers University Check out this classic essay by the great African-American scholar and writer W.E.B. Du Bois, entitled “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”. It’s the essay that engendered […]
