Mandisa Thomas
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Mandisa Thomas is the founder and president of Black Nonbelievers Inc., established in 2011.[1][2] She was raised secularly, although she sang in a church choir.[1][3] In 2012 she was shown next to Langston Hughes on a billboard in Atlanta as part of a campaign sponsored by the group African Americans for Humanism.[4] In 2013 she was a speaker at the 2013 National Convention of American Atheists.[5] Also that year she organized the Blackout Secular Rally in New York, which was the first outdoor event featuring nontheists of color and the first secular rally celebrating diversity.[6] The idea for the rally was hers and Ayanna Watson's.[7]
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