Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses Backtalker, intersectionality, Black women, economic justice, and why inclusive policymaking is essential to a stronger democracy.

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 ...

Understanding intersectionality and the complex and cumulative way that different forms of discrimination like sexism, ageism, racism and classism overlap and affect people is crucial for leaders who ...

What is intersectionality? This relatively new term has to do with each individual's unique experiences of discrimination and stigma, experiencing intersecting layers of oppression from different ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw, the law professor at Columbia and UCLA who coined the term intersectionality to describe the way people's social identities can overlap, tells TIME about the politicization of her ...

Intersectionality didn’t originate as an anti-Jewish idea. Coined in 1989 by Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in the context of critical race theory, and with the intention of ...

Earlier this week, an auditorium of young people at Lewis & Clark Law School was prevented from hearing the ideas of a speaker whom a student organization invited to campus when protesters exercised a ...

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, ...

Viola Davis at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Latoya Peterson is the Editor and Publisher of Racialicious.com and an Editor at Large at Fusion. When I first ...

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 ...