If you ask a Sikh about their religion, the first thing you will hear is belief in the Oneness of God. The second is that Sikh men wear turbans to cover their long hair, an article of faith which tragically became a target after 9/11 (See, I just did it)....
(4) Comments | Posted December 19, 2011 | 2:12 PM
Dear Steve Hafner:
Let me first say that Kayak.com is bookmarked on my computer. I think it's the best travel site out there. I've used Kayak for every single flight I have ever booked since 2005. And I travel a lot -- at least 50,000 miles a year. You provide...
(2) Comments | Posted October 25, 2011 | 3:11 PM
By Valarie Kaur and Jessica Jenkins
It is a basic fact of the moral universe that children should not be sold for sexual
exploitation. However, in America, girls and boys are regularly manipulated, coerced, and forced into sex for money. Most are trafficked from within the United States, not...
(15) Comments | Posted October 9, 2011 | 9:30 AM
In my travels across the country, I've been speaking about a rising generation ready to emerge from the shadows of the last decade and enter a new era of social change. Now we are seeing something emerge -- a grassroots campaign has caught fire, turning out thousands of people, young...
(6) Comments | Posted February 1, 2011 | 1:31 PM
In the weeks following 9/11, a Sikh man named Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot down at a gas station by a man shouting "I'm a patriot!" In 2009, a 9-year-old girl named Brisenia Flores and her father were murdered in Arizona, allegedly at the hands of...
(17) Comments | Posted September 15, 2010 | 10:06 AM
September 15, 2010 -- Nine years ago today, the murder of a family friend changed the course of my life. His name was Balbir Singh Sodhi. Four days after 9/11, he was shot in the back in front of his gas station by a man who yelled when arrested, "I'm...
(23) Comments | Posted March 22, 2012 | 8:08 AM