A legal scholar and ‘Backtalker’ defends critical race theory — a term she helped coin

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and the founder of the African American Policy Forum. Carl Timpone

Carl Timpone

Growing up in Canton, Ohio, legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was encouraged to call out conditions that were unfair or inexplicable. It was a form of “talking back” that continued into her career, she says.

“We’re not living in a world in which we are all standing on

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