Vishavjit Singh, who educates youth about Sikhism through his Captain Sikh America character, poses for a portrait in costume at home, in New York's Harlem neighborhood, Friday, May 30, 2025.

A Sikh Captain America? Why religious diversity matters in the comics universe 'I talk about equality, justice and about the universal light being present in every speck of creation,' Singh said ...

Vishavjit Singh looked at the boy who uttered those words, and then he looked at himself — a skinny, bespectacled, turbaned, bearded Sikh in a Captain America suit.

A Sikh Captain America? Why religious diversity matters in the comics universe In 2016, Singh gave up his full-time job to travel around the country to schools, government agencies and ...

Vishavjit Singh, who educates youth about Sikhism through his Captain Sikh America character, poses for a portrait in costume at home, in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, Friday, May 30, 2025.

A Sikh Captain America? Why religious diversity matters in the comics universe Comic book writers and academics who study the intersection of religion and comics are observing a renaissance of sorts.

He suited up as Captain Sikh America in Manhattan for the first time in summer 2013 — one year after a self-proclaimed white supremacist opened fire inside a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, ...