The Human Prospect is a peer-reviewed, indexed journal focused on the development and refinement of humanist values and ethics, as well as ways the humanist movement can foster them throughout society. It also covers new scientific evidence, theories, and conclusions, as well as their impact upon and relationship to society, values, and ethics.
All throughout history the older generation has complained about the younger generation. During ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, the older people were complaining that the younger people were disrespectful, and that morality was in decline. In North America, during the days of the Puritans, older people complained that the youth were headed for disaster. They complained about young people’s slang – they used “good bye” instead of “God bless you,” for example.
As of early March 2019, three American Democratic presidential candidates advocated reparations for descendants of American slaves. On July 20, 2017, The New York Amsterdam published “Europe replies to demand for reparations,” referring to a 2013 lawsuit filed by fourteen Caribbean nations against the United Kingdom, France, and The Netherlands. Thus, the request for compensation for ancestors’ free labor is now transnational.
Observations about adult transracial adoptees and the role of special perspectives in discourses around race and, in order to move the fundamental societal discussions forward, how transracial adoptees and multiracial individuals can help lead narratives around race beyond the historically simplistic and binary dialogues.
Humanism and the struggle for civil rights in the United States have had much in common. Martin Luther King Jr. is considered to have been a Christian humanist, while other civil rights leaders have been more secularly inclined. The political activist life of the late civil rights organizer and secular humanist James Forman is memorialized.
Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 began to inspire equal rights for marginalized groups, and before the Stonewall riots in 1969 energized the move towards more progressive social changes for gay people, homosexuality was considered to be a mental illness by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Today the struggles for LGBT people have not been entirely erased, but the 2015 landmark opinion by the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage has pushed customs and institutions in the United States to become more equal. However, as many gay people still do, the author of this essay still harbors memories of the cruelly real world recently left behind.
