Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...

If we stand next to one another, Thenmozhi Soundararajan and I look alike. We both have Indian immigrant roots and are the products of marriages between Hindu fathers and Christian mothers. We share ...

Speech delivered at the caste abolition conference in Srirangam–Tiruvanaikovil on 2 November 1958. (Published in Viduthalai on 20 November 1958.) A caste abolition conference, the “Free Tamil Nadu” ...

U.S. cities are deeply segregated, often with streets or highways separating higher-income predominantly White neighborhoods from lower-income predominantly Black ones. This is not an accident of ...

To address discrimination against persons, the traditional leaders of Oguta, in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, on Sunday, abolished the age-long outcaste (Ohu) system, which had been a ...

This post was updated June 11 at 7:49 p.m. UC community members are calling for a ban on caste-based discrimination and further support for caste-oppressed students and faculty following similar ...

I met Minal at a retreat center in rural England in March 2023, and we became fast friends. We were there to attend a Buddhist course, with six other women from different parts of the world. Over the ...

The Anambra Traditional Rulers Council, Chaired by the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, has pledged their support to efforts at eradicating the “Osu” caste system in the state. The traditional ...

Twenty four traditional rulers in Oguta Local Government 8 of Imo have endorsed abolishing the Osu caste system, to free affected people from stigmatisation. The age-long system is also known in some ...

Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, ...