FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

On June 19, 1865, union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued some two and a half years earlier. More than 150 years later, President Joe ...

Yengde is right that India cannot fix sanitation without confronting caste psychology India also cannot fix sanitation ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

Dalit feminists argued that influencers cannot reclaim the R-word because it carries the history and centuries of caste and gender violence. Privilege shapes who can use the slur safely, but for many ...

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 ...