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 ...

We speak with renowned legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw about right-wing efforts to curtail the teaching of African American history, queer studies and other subjects that focus on marginalized ...

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, ...

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 ...

In a timely discussion taking place just one day after the Supreme Court ruled to end Affirmative Action, ESSENCE Senior News & Politics Editor Malaika Jabali sat with Civil Rights Activist and ...

In a Feb. 20, 2020 interview with Time, Kimberlé Crenshaw said the following about intersectionality, a term she coined over 30 years prior: “It’s basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in ...

Esteemed scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw ensures the stories of Black women murdered by the police are not forgotten and lost to history with her new book #Say Her Name: Black Women’s Stories Of Police ...

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 ...