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 ...

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 ...

Intersectionality may be a buzz word in the news, personal essays and protest marches now, but it wasn’t a well-known concept until scholar Kimberle Crenshaw developed and presented the theory in the ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw honored with Gittler Prize Scholar who coined 'intersectionality' visited Brandeis for a ceremony and lecture Photo/Mike Lovett Kimberlé Crenshaw speaks to the crowd in Rapaporte ...

In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality, which refers to the overlapping identities of individuals that influence their experience with discrimination. In a lecture on Thursday, ...

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 ...

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 ...