Last year, 12-year-old Mikia Hutchings was faced with expulsion from her Georgia middle school and possible felony charges by the local sheriff’s department. Her crime: writing the word “hi” on a locker room wall. Her white friend graffiti’d even more words on the wall, yet the school handled their punishments quite differently. Mikia’s friend paid […]
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw is a civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. She developed intersectionality, the study of how overlapping social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to structures of oppression. Her work includes intersectional feminism, which examines the systems of discrimination that women face due to their ethnicity, sexuality and economic background.
Sex, Power and Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later
Almost everyone has an Anita Hill story. Some of us remember exactly where we were when that theater of sex, race and gender called a “hearing” was broadcast in primetime. Others recall water-cooler and sidewalk conversations and debates about guilt and innocence, about sexual harassment as a “white lady’s problem,” about the effect of the […]
In Case Being Abused in Mississippi Isn’t Bad Enough …
Since the Arizona state legislature passed the draconian anti-immigration bill SB 1070, other states seem to be in a race to catch up. Nebraska and Mississippi, with some of the nation’s smallest percentages of Latinos living within their borders, are nonetheless trying to pass some of the toughest anti-immigration laws we have seen to date, […]