Jamila Bey
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Jamila Bey speaking at the CPAC in Baltimore in 2015
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Washington Post, Voice of Russia, NPR |
Jamila Bey is an African-American journalist and public speaker. She was host of a weekly radio program The Sex, Politics And Religion Hour: SPAR With Jamila on Voice of Russia,[1] and writes for the Washington Post's blog, She the People.[2][3] Before working for the Washington Post and the Voice of Russia, Bey spent around a decade working as a producer and editor for National Public Radio, including for Morning Edition.[3]
Besides her journalistic activities, Bey is notable as an outspoken African-American atheist,[4] who has publicly stated that she believes religion to be actively detrimental to African-Americans, suggesting that religion both contributed to the physical enslavement of African Americans, and continues to contribute to their mental enslavement.[5] She objects to the common characterization of the civil rights movement as a religious one, stating that although churches were significantly involved in the movement, "humans did all the work."[6]
In 2015 Bey became the first atheist activist to address the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual meeting.[7]
References
- ↑ Radio : SPAR : Voice of Russia - US Edition
- ↑ "She the People - Blog contributors". Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-10-01.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Jamila Bey | Secular Student Alliance". Secular Student Alliance. Archived from the original on 2013-08-30. Retrieved 6 October 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Jamila Bey". Memphis Flyer. 21 August 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Desmond-Harris, Jenee (4 December 2011). "On Black Atheism: Jamila Bey". The Root. Retrieved 6 October 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Brennan, Emily (27 November 2011). "The Unbelievers". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 October 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "In a first, atheist activist addresses conservative conference". The Washington Post. 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2015-02-28.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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