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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality, which refers to the overlapping identities of individuals that influence their experience with discrimination. In a lecture on Thursday, ...

For decades, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and cofounder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), has been at the forefront of the ...