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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The 2019 International Women’s Day asks a necessary and provocative question: How can we move toward a more gender-balanced world? More than a day on the calendar, International Women’s Day is the ...

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 ...

This is a special encore edition of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. This segment originally aired on October 15, 2017. Intersectionality may be a buzz word in the news, personal essays and ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw honored with Gittler Prize Scholar who coined 'intersectionality' visited Brandeis for a ceremony and lecture Photo/Mike Lovett Kimberlé Crenshaw speaks to the crowd in Rapaporte ...

Parades cancelled. Celebrations postponed. This June — which marks 50 years since the country's first gay pride march, held in New York City on June 28, 1970 — looks strikingly different from Pride ...

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 ...