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 ...

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 ...

All too often, the forces of justice in America fail to disrupt the status quo, explained Kimberlé Crenshaw in a lecture on Thursday. The thick controversy surrounding affirmative action in college ...

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 ...

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw is a leading voice and scholar in critical race theory and intersectionality. Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy ...

Canton native and law professor Kimberle Williams Crenshaw has received the W.E.B. Dubois Medal from Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research for her work in ...

Canton native Kimberle Williams Crenshaw has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. An internationally recognized expert on U.S. constitutional law, Crenshaw is the executive director ...

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has been an Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow at the ACLU since February 2005; working primarily at the National Office. Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA ...

Building an environment of inclusion requires another word beginning with ‘i:’ intersectionality. No one is just one thing. We all have traits, tendencies, expressions of identity that make us who we ...