The following is excerpted from the latest issue of Ms. To read the entire article, get a print or digital subscription today! In 2012, 6-year-old Salecia Johnson was arrested and handcuffed in a Georgia school for having a temper tantrum. In 2007, 16-year-old Pleajhai Mervin was arrested after she dropped cake on the floor in […]
Author: Kimberle Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw is executive director and cofounder of the African American Policy Forum. A law professor at UCLA and Columbia Law School, she is a leading authority in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race and the law. She is coeditor of Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement.