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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is the founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum.

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March 22, 2021
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America
How partisans on all sides overlook the brutal legacies of white supremacy
December 21, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unacceptable Costs of Appeasing MAGA Nation
Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists
October 23, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Don’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show
How we might have prevented November’s election from turning into another sequel to “The Purge”
August 13, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Fear of a Black Uprising
Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing
May 21, 2020
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unmattering of Black Lives
In the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, we see that the violence of the past is the violence of the present.
May 4, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
When Blackness Is a Preexisting Condition
How modern disaster relief has hurt African American communities
March 25, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Seeing No Evil
The peril of gender-blind consensus thinking
January 2, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Naming the Threat
The scourge of police violence targeting Black women
October 25, 2019
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
How Men Distort the Race Debate
The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality.
August 6, 2019
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Destructive Politics of White Amnesia
Joe Biden set the stage for Donald Trump's racial scapegoating. Why can't he admit that he was wrong?
May 29, 2019
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction
How the legacy of Jim Crow haunts Trump's America

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