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 ...

What is caste? India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they ...

Seattle is explicitly banning discrimination on the basis of caste, making it the first city in the US to take such a step. The Seattle City Council approved an ordinance on Tuesday that amends ...

Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination on Tuesday, after its local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws.

As the caste equity movement continues to grow, Fresno, California, has become the second U.S. city, after Seattle, to officially add it to its discrimination law.

Fresno, California, became only the second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after a unanimous city council vote that added caste and indigeneity as two new protected categories into its ...

India Will Soon Start Its Delayed Census, Including Asking Questions About Caste NEW DELHI (AP) — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The ...

Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit American scholar, technologist, and caste equity educator, was invited — and then uninvited — to speak at Google. (Kristen Murakoshi for The Washington Post) ...

Seattle became the first city to ban discrimination based on caste after a Tuesday vote by the city council. The move to add caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws was sponsored by Kshama ...