Haley said no one would rent to her parents, in part because they were foreign-born and in part because her father was a professor at a "Black school" — the HBCU Voorhees College in Denmark ...

Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa at Bamberg County Memorial Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina, [1][2][19] to immigrant Sikh parents from Amritsar, Punjab, India. [20][21] Before moving to North America, her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa (1933–2024), [22] was a professor at Punjab Agricultural University, [23] and her mother, Raj Kaur Randh...

My mother wore a sari. I was a brown girl in a Black and white world. "We faced discrimination and hardship but my parents never gave in to grievance and hate." What happened to Nikki's father, Ajit Randhawa? On June 16, 2024, Haley announced Ajit died that Father's Day morning.

In her 2021 memoir Haley wrote that both of her Indian parents, who came to the U.S. via Canada, were subject to racism upon their move to America. “When it came time for my parents to find a...

Haley's parents, Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa, are Indian immigrants from Punjab who both worked as teachers and owned a clothing boutique. Nikki Haley hugs her mother, Raj...