The latest installment of Intersectionality Matters! brings together Kimberlé Crenshaw with acclaimed scholars Anthony Cook, Daniel Martinez-HoSang, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Gary Peller and Robert A. Williams, Jr.

The conversation, which is an edited version of the first plenary session of our Critical Race Theory Summer School 2021, was an opportunity to ask some of the early theorists of critical race theory (CRT) about what brought them into the discipline and how CRT’s insurgent origins portended the backlash it is now receiving.

In the episode, the panelists identify the difficulties other disciplines, civil rights campaigns, and community organizing efforts have confronted as they have taken up the challenge to treat racism as a systemic and structural problem. The panelists also discuss the lens CRT provides to a range of social issues, and analyze why such an expansive vision of racial justice is under attack right now.

With so much disinformation circling around CRT and its utility, this conversation excavates the anxious times that spurred CRT’s development and how we are faced with a similar, visceral challenge again now.

Listen and subscribe to Intersectionality Matters! today.

• Latest episode of Intersectionality Matters! podcast.

In this episode, Kimberlé Crenshaw joins award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien to discuss the parallel and overlapping ways that law and media have obstructed racial justice. Hear their thoughts on disinformation, “bothsides-ism,” and the media’s mishandling of the attacks on CRT. Listen now and subscribe to Intersectionality Matters! at bit.ly/intersectionalitymatters.

The second must-listen we’re excited to share is the new episode of The Daily Show’s Beyond the Scenes podcast, which tackles the battle over critical race theory with the biting satirical outlook you expect from The Daily Show.