The term "intersectionality" has become the latest buzzword, especially to describe the myriad forces opposed to President Donald Trump and his administration's policies. One scholar who seeks to ...

If someone were to randomly ask me, “What are you?" I’d think they were asking me about my race—I’m Filipino and white, but those aren’t the only aspects of my identity that define me as a person. I’m ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The theory was first introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and critical race theorist at the UCLA School of Law and ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation once hosted an employee training session focused on the concept of intersectionality, according to new documents. The documents came to light shortly after it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A white patriarchal system should not define who ideal citizens are. Ashanti Monts-Treviska co-manages a social enterprise, Cascadia Deaf Nation, which focuses on creating a member-owned cooperative ...

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 ...