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These Sikh Americans are paving a way for diversity in sports

Back in 2014, Darsh Singh stepped onto the NCAA [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ncaa-s-first-turbaned-sikh-american-basketball-player-darsh-singh-goes-from-racist-meme-to-internet-a6768371.html] court as the first-ever Sikh American basketball player the league had ever seen. It wasn’t easy. Clad in a turban, he was targeted, experiencing his fair share of racism. At...

‘To be a Sikh in America, you have to completely own it.’

Photo by Mike Tessier/Very Good Light“My teacher called me a terrorist one time.” So says Sahaj Anand, a student at Emory University, who happens to be Sikh American. Though the thought of being labeled as something so outrageous is undoubtedly painful, sadly, for Sahaj, it’s something that...