Kimberlé Crenshaw in 2018.(Monica Schipper / Getty Images for The New York Women’s Foundation) Kimberlé Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA, and she’s probably the most prominent ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The College Board released its revised curriculum for a new AP class in African American studies. The Florida Department of Education had rejected the course, including topics like intersectionality ...

Intersectionality is easily one of the most powerful forces driving American political debate and policy in 2025. And because of its higher-level academic origins, the majority of voters on either ...

KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW: I organized the first critical race theory workshop. We were all thinking outside the traditional box about the relationship between law and racial subordination, and when we came ...

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, ...

Legal scholar, civil rights activist and Cornell alumna Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81 delivered the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Feb. 19, speaking to around 400 attendees in Sage ...

In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has emerged to describe the impact of belonging to multiple social categories. Known as intersectionality, the social theory has a ...