A Sikh Captain America? Why religious diversity matters in the comics universe

By DEEPA BHARATH, Associated Press

“Captain America doesn’t wear a beard and a turban, and he’s white.”

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.

“I wasn’t offended, because I knew that this kid was going to have this image of me, a Sikh Captain America, forever in his mind,” Singh said. “This image has so much power to it that it opens up conversations...