On Thursday, Sept. 11, Anand Patwardhan spoke at Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art as part of a series of events hosted ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is from the official trailer for “Origin” distributed by Neon. In a montage of the ...

LOS ANGELES -- "Origin" is based on journalist Isabel Wilkerson's non-fiction book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." It examines racism in America as an aspect of a caste system, based on ...

The adjacent countries of the Dominican Republic and Haiti share an island — as well as a troubling history that influenced the Western hemisphere, from as far north as Canada to as far south as ...

When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's ...

“Origin” takes its title from Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 best-selling “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” a book in which she presents a theory about power, hierarchy and dehumanization that argues ...

This image released by Neon shows Jon Bernthal, left, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a scene from "Origin." (Atsushi Nishijima/Neon via AP) In her biopic “Selma” (2014), she depicted Martin Luther King ...

There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...