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These Sikh Americans are paving a way for diversity in sports

Back in 2014, Darsh Singh stepped onto the NCAA 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 games, people would tell him to “go back to his...

‘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...