From lynchings and social boycotts to a historic caste census decision, 2025 showed that caste continues to shape violence, ...

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 ...

The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, making the Pacific Northwest hub the first city in the U.S. to ban caste discrimination and the first in the ...

Students in Alawalpur allege caste discrimination by teachers, claiming forced labor and segregation based on caste in their ...

KATHMANDU, Dec 29: The National Dalit Commission (NDC) has launched an online platform for filing complaints related to caste ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The politics around California’s recently proposed legislation banning caste-based discrimination have become contentious. They shouldn’t be. Caste discrimination remains one of the least ...

A video circulating on social media shows students alleging they were made to sit separately, prevented from mingling with ...

India's ancient discriminatory caste system could be making an impact in the U.S., and now some areas are banning the practice. In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as ...

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City ...

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of ...