Simran Jeet Singh

Simran Jeet Singh is Senior Adviser for Equity and Inclusion at YSC Consulting and a Visiting Professor at Union Seminary. He is a 2020 Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations and a Senior Fellow for the Sikh Coalition.

All Stories by Simran Jeet Singh

New poll reveals how much we presume about Muslim Americans’ politics

By Simran Jeet Singh — October 15, 2021

(RNS) — Two decades after 9/11, Americans are still getting to know their Muslim neighbors. New data may help.

‘We have already achieved the impossible’: Fighting a rare childhood disease with hope

By Simran Jeet Singh — October 5, 2021

(RNS) — A civil rights activist becomes an advocate for solving her son’s affliction.

Anti-Sikh bigotry didn’t start with 9/11. That fact got me through it.

By Simran Jeet Singh — September 8, 2021

(RNS) — When people ask me how I’m able to endure the specter of bigotry as a visible Sikh in modern America, the answer now feels simple and honest: perspective.

20 years after the first Taliban regime, will we again target people based on how they look?

By Simran Jeet Singh — August 18, 2021

(RNS) — Have we learned anything about our own bigotry and extremism, and the rights of religious minorities?

Giannis Antetokounmpo: NBA stardom without the ego

By Simran Jeet Singh — August 10, 2021

(RNS) — Spiritual lessons from the NBA Finals' MVP.

Samrath Singh, first turbaned Sikh to play NCAA baseball, is more than the challenges he has overcome

By Simran Jeet Singh — August 5, 2021

(RNS) — ‘I’m confident in who I am and I love myself, and the people around me, my own beliefs, and my religion, have helped me accept myself and be proud of who I am,’ said New Jersey native and Boston College senior Samrath Singh.

Human rights is on Blinken’s agenda in India. Can he make it stick?

By Simran Jeet Singh — July 30, 2021

(RNS) — If we are going to be partners, we have to hold India to the standards we expect from ourselves.

Hindutva’s threat to academic freedom

By Ananya Chakravarti — July 7, 2021

(RNS) — The Hindu right has attacked U.S.-based scholars for the past few decades, attempting to dissuade and discredit academic research.

The Atlanta spa shooting and the hate crime gap

By Simran Jeet Singh — May 14, 2021

(RNS) — Those targeted by hate see evidence of bias that law enforcement doesn't see.

Treating the Indianapolis attack as a hate crime will keep us all safer

By Simran Jeet Singh — April 22, 2021

(RNS) — Eyewitness accounts suggest bias as a motivation for the shooting.

Moving from pain to action: an address to the Sikh community after Indianapolis

By Simran Jeet Singh — April 17, 2021

(RNS) — What have we done to fulfill our promise to make the world a better and safer place?

Why Hindu nationalists are attacking Sikhs in Australia

By Simran Jeet Singh — March 11, 2021

(RNS) — Hindu nationalists outside India are now terrorizing Sikhs in response to the historic farmer protests.

In US Capitol attack, America’s violent gun culture finally reached its source

By Simran Jeet Singh — February 26, 2021

(RNS) — Gun violence is not an issue that can be solved through legislation alone; it will require moral and religious efforts as well.

Biden’s transition team wanted to talk about religious freedom. Here’s what I told them.

By Simran Jeet Singh — January 14, 2021

(RNS) — What I said had as much to do with racial justice as religious freedom, as the two are inextricably linked.

If the mob’s attack on the Capitol surprised you, you weren’t paying attention

By Simran Jeet Singh — January 7, 2021

(RNS) — The truth is, this is precisely who we are. White supremacy is at the foundation of this country.

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