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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...