American, anti-capitalist and anti-Western ideologues who have been ramping up their violence this year. But few Americans ...

Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw speaks in New York City on Feb. 7, 2015. Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has ...

When law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of "intersectionality" in a 1989 law journal article to describe how various forms of oppression based on categories of identity — like ...

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 majority of Crenshaw’s talk focused on how personal events in her life led to her understanding of intersectionality’s personal and political effects. As a black woman, she said, her life is a ...

Intersectionality was first coined and defined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as “the various way[s] in which race and gender interact to shape the multiple dimensions of black women’s employment ...

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, ...

Crenshaw provided different examples to contextualize intersectionality, including the notion that "African-American women experience sexism in ways that are distinct from the ways that white women ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and civil rights scholar best known for coining the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory,” was presented with Yale School of Public Health’s Winslow ...

The term “intersectionality” is not a word that most of us use in everyday conversations. But it is a concept that impacts many people in ways that, unfortunately, routinely escalates injustice and ...