News

The blue turban closely resembled the style of turbans worn by millions of Sikhs around the world, and people in the Sikh community were offended, calling out both Gucci and Nordstrom for cultural ...
For observant Sikhs, tying a turban is neither a ritual nor a sign of extremism; it is a declaration of Sikh identity and signifies commitment to the Sikh principles of justice and universal equality.
The New York Police Department is allowing Sikh officers to wear turbans instead of traditional caps, and grow their beards up to half an inch long for religious reasons, Police Commissioner James ...
The turban, tied in distinctive fashion, was a way to manage long hair and serves as the most instant way to recognize a Sikh. Read the full post on CNN’s Belief blog Ad Feedback ...
In a gesture of goodwill to the city’s burgeoning Sikh population, the New York City Police Department will soon allow officers who are members of the religion to wear blue turbans and beards ...
While 42% of U.S. adults (42%) know that the Sikh religion generally requires male adherents to wear a turban in public, about 1 in 5 incorrectly chose Islam or Hinduism in response to this question.
Members of the Sikh faith are staging outreach events at temples around the country over the next few months as part of a national campaign to dispel American misconceptions that their turbans and ...
For centuries the traditional look for men of the Sikh faith—the turban, the beard—has been pretty much recognizable in an instant. That simple fact sent two photographers on a search for ...
A drunken, unruly passenger hurled racial slurs at a Sikh cabbie, then punched him and swiped his turban early Sunday morning. Harkirat Singh, 24, picked up four riders at the corner of Eighth ...
U.S. Air Force security forces Tech. Sgt. Kyle Luthman shoots an M4 carbine during the 3rd Annual Andrew Sullens State Marksmanship Competition at Fort Stewart, Ga. March 11, 2016.
Alarmed by numerous mistaken-identity attacks on their believers, turban-wearing Sikhs are prominently flying the American flag from their Southern California temples out of patriotism--and for ...
As students gathered outside on school grounds one morning last week, someone came up behind a 16-year-old junior, a member of the Sikh faith, and allegedly set the boy's turban on fire.