California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some South Asians, many miles away from their homes, say they are suffering from experiences with discrimination that dates back ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The sun was ablaze and the energy was charged. Outside the California State Capitol ...

California may become the first state in the nation to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard people of South Asian descent say is necessary to protect them from discrimination in housing, education and ...

Anti-caste activists in Seattle hold signs calling for an end to caste-based discrimination. Photo by Kshama Sawant's campaign. The ordinance—which frames caste as a human rights issue—passed on ...

UPDATE: On Feb. 21, 2023, Seattle became the first city in the nation to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, with a 6-1 majority vote at the city council. We are finally here. After decades of ...

In 2015, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a young activist, scholar, and co-founder of Equality Labs — a dalit civil rights organisation — spearheaded the first nationwide survey on caste discrimination in ...

The California State University announced it has added caste as a protected category in its systemwide anti-discrimination policy, a hard-fought policy deeply meaningful to Dalit students of South ...

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant sponsored the legislation to ban caste discrimination in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Seattle lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation ...

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call ...