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Sikh community comes together against discrimination and last updated 2021-04-23 14:53:20-04 CHICAGO — Founded more than 500 years ago in the Punjab region of South Asia, the Sikh faith has more than 25 million adherents worldwide. There are some 500,000 Sikhs living in the U.S. today, with the first immigrating in the late 1800s. Four of the eight victims in last week’s deadly mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis were Indian Americans of the Sikh faith. Now, activists, a...

RELEASE: Lawmakers, National Security Experts, Civil Rights Leaders Call for Renewed Commitment To End White Supremacist Violence Date: April 21, 2021 Contact: Sam Hananel Washington, D.C. — On Wednesday, members of Congress and experts on national security, faith, technology policy, and civil rights issues called for a renewed national commitment to combat white supremacist violence. The comments came during a joint event sponsored by the Center for American Progress and the McCain Institute...

ONLINE EVENT ADVISORY: A Blueprint for Ending White Supremacist Violence Date: April 16, 2021 Contact: Sam Hananel Washington, D.C. — White supremacist violence in the United States is not new, but in recent years, it has become a top national security threat. In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, particularly white supremacist extremists, are “the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland.” T...

A Blueprint for Ending White Supremacist Violence A joint Center for American Progress and McCain Institute for International Leadership event Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 11:00 am ET - 12:30 pm ET White supremacist violence in the United States is not new, but in recent years, it has become a top national security threat. In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, particularly white supremacist extremist...

US Lawyers Write to President Biden on Farmers Protests, Modi Govts Repressive Tactics Your administration comes to office at a time when minority communities across India are in peril, notes the letter, urging the US President to act. U.S. President Joe Biden addresses National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff during a visit to NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., February 11, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria World15/Feb/2021 New Delhi: More than 40 lawyers of south Asian descent have written an...

For many Sikh Americans, Indias new farm laws hit close to home Claire Wang © Provided by NBC News When Aasees Kaur was growing up, she often saw bounties of wheat, cauliflower and tomatoes on her familys farm in Amritsar, a city in the Indian state of Punjab, where her Sikh family has been farming on the same land for nearly two centuries. She now lives in Cincinnati, but she still has many relatives there whose main source of income is agriculture. So when Indian Prime Minis...