Pat Parker believed poetry should tell the truth, even when it made audiences uncomfortable. The Black lesbian poet, who emerged during the upheavals of the civil rights era, wrote about racism, ...

Intersectionality – the theory of how different types of discrimination interact – has brought law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw global attention. Here, she talks to Bim Adewunmi about how both feminist ...

Before I am a girl, I am black. Before I face sexism, I face racism. Before anyone takes note of my gender expression, their eyes focus on the color of my skin, a brown appearing golden in the ...