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 ...

Before distinguished law professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw coined the term in 1989, she also was searching for the ...

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 ...

In a new memoir, the legal expert shares how her experiences as a Black woman gave rise to frameworks the far-right has tried ...

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It’s been more than 50 years since Claudia Jones gave her final farewell, but every August as Londoners don fanciful feathers down the streets of Notting Hill, you can still feel the activist’s spirit ...

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, ...

Guarding against discrimination in the workplace matters, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because businesses that fail to do so will fall short on two counts: helping individuals ...

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 ...

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