Norm Allen
Center for Inquiry — Amherst, NY
Norm Allen is the Executive Director of African Americans for Humanism (AAH), an educational organization primarily concerned with fostering critical thinking, ethical conduct, church-state separation, and skepticism toward untested claims to knowledge. He is the editor of the ground-breaking book African-American Humanism: An Anthology, AAH Examiner, and is an Associate Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. His most recent book is The Black Humanist Experience.
Norm Allen has spoken at many institutions of higher learning including Harvard University, Cheyney University, Temple University, the University of Minnesota, and The Ohio State University. He has appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows, including "The O'Reilley Factor" on the Fox News Network, the Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio, BBC Radio, the now-defunct "Rolanda" nationally syndicated television talk show, and the Ghanaian Broadcasting Corporation.
"...I see no evidence whatsoever [for the existence of God]. There's been a lot of talk about faith, but what is faith but the admission that you have no evidence that God exists? As a thinking person, I demand some evidence before I accept the claim."
(Allen on "Rolanda," 1997.)
Watch part one of Norm's discussion of humanism and civil rights:
