This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

Imagine there's no heaven.

Seas if you try.

No hell below us.

Above us only sky Imagine all the people

Living for today Hello are you, how boundy Hello, all you hellbound atheists and in different agnostics.

There's 30 million of us non-religious in this nation and growing,

and this radio show is for you, and for those of you who find skepticism an intriguing topic.

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio.

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

Free Thought Radio broadcasts over many Air America stations and is streaming fromairAmerica.com.

And the show is produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation, a group that works to keep religion and government separate

and to educate the public about the views of those of us who do not believe.

Our guest today will be Norm Allen, author of African American Humanism and Anthology.

And this week's show is celebrating African American Freethinkers.

And according to the current American

religious identification survey, 11% of the African-American community identifies as non-religious.

That's very close to the 15% national average for all races and ethnic groups.

We'll be talking with Norm Allen on the second half of today's show about what's new with African Americans and

humanism and maybe talk a little bit about current events and what's going on in some

nations in Africa.

For the first half of Free Thought Radio, though, we'd like to take a closer look at several

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