Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw speaks in New York City on Feb. 7, 2015. Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images In ...

Kimberle Crenshaw speaks during the New York Women's Foundation's "Celebrating Women" breakfast in New York City, on May 10, 2018.Monica Schipper—The New York Women's Foundation/Getty Images Kimberlé ...

Law professor and civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw joined African American Studies Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. for a conversation on Monday, discussing the state of higher education and ...

KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW: Intersectionality came out of an encounter that I had with the way anti-discrimination law seemed to overlook the challenges that Black women were facing in employment. My first ...

Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, ...

Intersectionality may be a buzz word in the news, personal essays and protest marches now, but it wasn’t a well-known concept until scholar Kimberle Crenshaw developed and presented the theory in the ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading critical race theory scholar, said it was “a shame” that the College Board removed the topic of intersectionality from its new Advanced Placement African American studies ...

The term intersectionality gets thrown around a lot by progressives and conservatives alike. I’ve seen conservatives use intersectionality to describe what they see as some kind of mythical new caste ...

Intersectionality is a prism that can be used to interrogate power and resistance across limitless contexts," Crenshaw said. "But resisting their (black women's) displacement in feminism and in ...