Arpita Aneja

Arpita Aneja is a Video Producer for TIME Video.

Lady Java protesting for her right to work in L.A., October 1967

How One Drag Performer's Overlooked Activism Helped Lay the Groundwork for Today's Fight for Transgender Rights

In the Los Angeles club scene of the 1960s, Sir Lady Java—a dancer, comedia...

In the Los Angeles club scene of the 1960s, Sir Lady Java—a dancer, comedian and drag queen—was a two-shows-a-night fixture. “I loved the people that came to see me, it delighted me,” she says, flipping...

A circa 1917 interior photo of St. Luke's Penny Savings Bank.

Beyond Tulsa: The Historic Legacies and Overlooked Stories of America’s ‘Black Wall Streets’

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened there is finally mor...

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened there is finally more widely known—but other "Black Wall Street" stories remain hidden

A photograph of Asian Immigrants arriving at the quarantine station at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, circa 1911.

The Overlooked History of Angel Island, Where the U.S. Enforced Rules Designed to Keep Asian Immigrants Out

Angel Island can provide a better understanding of the long U.S. tradition ...

Angel Island can provide a better understanding of the long U.S. tradition of welcoming some immigrant groups and excluding others

Black Panthers put on a Black Community Survival Conference at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco in April 1972, where bags of groceries are given away, and participants can also take sickle cell anemia tests and register to vote.

With Free Medical Clinics and Patient Advocacy, the Black Panthers Created a Legacy in Community Health That Still Exists Amid COVID-19

The Black Panthers' community health services grew out of a deep distrust i...

The Black Panthers' community health services grew out of a deep distrust in minority communities towards the traditional health care system

Protesters, one with a sign that reads Fifteen million U.S. homosexuals protest federal treatment, demonstrate outside the White House on Armed Forces Day, on May 21, 1965.

Arpita Aneja

How One Drag Performer's Overlooked Activism Helped Lay the Groundwork for Today's Fight for Transgender Rights

Beyond Tulsa: The Historic Legacies and Overlooked Stories of America’s ‘Black Wall Streets’

The Overlooked History of Angel Island, Where the U.S. Enforced Rules Designed to Keep Asian Immigrants Out

With Free Medical Clinics and Patient Advocacy, the Black Panthers Created a Legacy in Community Health That Still Exists Amid COVID-19

You've Probably Heard of the Red Scare, but the Lesser-Known, Anti-Gay 'Lavender Scare' Is Rarely Taught in Schools

Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don't Learn in School

How History Classes on the Women’s Suffrage Movement Leave Out the Work of Black Voting Rights Activists