Sarah Ray and Allie Ashmead highlight two Black freethinkers with a Florida connection: Zora Neale Hurston and Butterfly McQueen. Then a quick roundup of some of the week's news.

- Allie's Story - Zora Neale Hurston - Butterfly McQueen - Devon Graham's Secular Invocation before the Tallahassee Board of City Commissioners - FL Bill permitting high school pre-game prayers - FL Resolution seeking to limit $15/hr for certain people - Biden and the National Prayer Breakfast - Roy Speckhardt stepping down from American Humanist Association encourages a Black or Brown humanist replacement

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