Arpita Aneja

Arpita Aneja is a Video Producer for TIME Video.

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.

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

Under President Eisenhower, the investigation, interrogation and removal of...

Under President Eisenhower, the investigation, interrogation and removal of gay men and lesbians from the federal government became policy

Helen Keller (seated, right) visits President John F. Kennedy (seated, left) at the White House on April 8, 1961.

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

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students percei...

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities

75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

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

Many of the Black voting rights activists who paved the way for Kamala Harr...

Many of the Black voting rights activists who paved the way for Kamala Harris are not household names or even taught in U.S. schools

Emma Tenayuca on the witness stand in 1937.

These Latinas Were Pioneers for Workers' Rights in the U.S. Here Are 2 You Should Have Learned About in School

Latinas were active in the labor movement nearly three decades earlier, and...

Latinas were active in the labor movement nearly three decades earlier, and that work is not taught as often in schools

Arpita Aneja and her mother Romi in Hawaii, March 2019.

I Lost My Mother to COVID-19. Don't Let Anyone Tell You It's Not Something to Fear

I woke up on Oct. 2, my mother’s first birthday since she died of COVID-19 ...

I woke up on Oct. 2, my mother’s first birthday since she died of COVID-19 in May, to the news that the President of the United States had tested positive. Unbelievable. And yet totally believable....