Topic: Kimberly Crenshaw

Kimberly Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum and a law professor at Columbia and UCLA, defines Critical Race Theory as the study of how law has historically sustained racial inequality. Appearing on MSNBC with Mehdi Hassan, she explains that the framework originated in law schools to examine the infrastructure from slavery to the present. The discussion also revisits Crenshaw's coining of the term "intersectionality" as a prism for understanding compounding forms of disadvantage.

In a second clip from Joy Reid's show, Kimberly Crenshaw denies that CRT is being taught in K-12 schools, calling the controversy a "boogeyman." The hosts note a shift in terminology from "Black and Brown" or "People of Color" to "Dark Folks," suggesting that activists are constantly rebranding to maintain a sense of urgency and to include a broader range of non-white immigrant groups.