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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I first heard the word “intersectionality” during an identity workshop I took in ...

In 1969, a British magazine called Nova published an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was around the time the Beatles broke up, and also around the time Lennon and Ono got married, and the ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw—the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher professor of Law at the Law School and a pioneer of critical race theory, a term she coined alongside “intersectionality”—will be inducted into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Courtesy of Carl Timpone) A teacher who wouldn’t cast her as a princess in a kindergarten skit shaped Kimberlé Crenshaw’s views.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at the Law School, has devoted her academic career to fighting for the truth in Black history. As a pioneer of critical race ...

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 ...

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 ...