We are not all the same, and in our difference we are divine
(RNS) — Seeing oneness in difference is the only way I know for us to move beyond our supremacies and to begin treating one another as equals.
'Blinded by the Light' makes a savior of Springsteen
(RNS) — A distant American icon comes alive for a Sikh and a Muslim in a British factory town and changes their lives forever.
Gurinder Chadha: 'I started my career as a way of combating racism'
(RNS) — British director Gurinder Chadha's latest film, 'Blinded by the Light,' depicts a lost teenager in Margaret Thatcher's Britain finding salvation through perhaps the unlikeliest of saviors — Bruce Springsteen.
Sikh activists ask Kamala Harris for apology over beard ban for California prison guards
(RNS) — In 2011, as California’s attorney general, Harris fought to defend a policy that prevented state prison guards from keeping beards for religious reasons. Now, Sikh activists want an explanation.
Connecting the scourge of ethnic nationalism to the 1984 Sikh massacre
(RNS) — Ethno-nationalism is a regressive way of constructing and inhabiting a nation, yet its popularity is surging in the skyrocketing Hindu nationalism in India or the rise of white nationalism in the United States.
After harassment of Sikh bus driver, Maryland school district agrees to awareness training
(RNS) — Since he began working as a school bus driver in suburban Maryland more than a decade ago, Sawinder Singh’s colleagues, supervisors and students taunted him because of his religion and ethnicity.
Sikh faith highlighted as a social media star objects to turbaned men on a plane
This week an Instagram star became the most recent object lesson in prejudice and bigotry. Influencer Jess Hilarious published a raft of posts to her social accounts reaching millions of ...
Jess Hilarious profiled four Sikhs on a plane. Our government does so every day.
(RNS) — Why wouldn’t someone feel fearful when seeing a man with a turban on their airplane? Isn’t that precisely what society teaches us to think?
How 9/11 spurred New Jersey's Sikh attorney general into public service
(RNS) — New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal's faith is not the primary driver of his work as attorney general; its core teachings of service, justice and kindness are, and they align well with his progressive approach to policy.
Why Sikhs don't throw Muslims under the bus
(RNS) — Why do Sikhs like me challenge anti-Muslim hate when our religion is completely distinct? The answer starts with fairness but extends to our communities' long history of mutual regard.
Simran Jeet Singh: American Sikhs will begin to conquer the skeletons in their closet
RNS asked some of the country’s top faith leaders, scholars and activists to consider what changes the religion landscape will see in 2019. Find all their predictions here. In 2019, Sikhs ...
Who are the Sikhs and what are their beliefs?
(The Conversation) — More than 500,000 Sikh Americans face a growing amount of hate crimes, mainly from ignorance. A Sikh scholar explains the tenets and history of the faith, including why they wear turbans.
Suicide bomber targets Sikhs, Hindus in Afghanistan; 19 dead
(AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan’s president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 people.
Simran Jeet Singh: Sikh political leaders emerge around the world
(RNS) — We asked Simran Jeet Singh, a senior religion fellow for the Sikh Coalition, to consider what 2018 will mean for religion.
Enlisting SpongeBob and ‘Game of Thrones’ to counter anti-Sikh prejudice
(RNS) — 'I'm obsessed with Star Wars,' says a turbaned man who appears in one of the videos that are part of the 'We Are Sikhs' media campaign.