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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...