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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...