Suhailjeet Singh, a 20-year-old Indian-New Zealander, is the first baptized Sikh to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an aviation technician.
Air Force Special Operations Command has made history by granting a religious accommodation waiver to a Sikh service member. This is the first time the command has done so.
When Simran Jeet Singh was a little boy growing up as a Sikh in South Texas, he yearned for books that featured characters who resembled him and his family in appearance.
Gurpreet shares that every single black person she knew who has been a member of the Sikh community has encountered anti-blackness from their brown siblings.
Sikhs have long battled for the right to keep their religious identity intact.
The Sikhs who have short hair are even asked how their hair is so short if they haven't had any haircut or a trim.
Sikhs consider their turbans a gift from their gurus. Many Sikhs around the world wear the turban as an expression of their faith and commitment to serving humanity.
Since the time of Guru Nanak, Sikhism has had a tradition of wearing turbans but it was the sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind Singh who formalized the turban as a symbol of sovereignty and royalty.
Jagmeet Singh, the newly elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party, won people's hearts by handling an ignorant critic with maturity when he was accosted at the Atwater Market, Montreal, and told to remove his turban.