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‘Intersectionality’ has become a hot-button topic in recent years. Here’s what it means

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, “intersectionality” was first coined more than 30 years ago by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, as a relatively obscure concept analyzing how

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2 cheerleaders were shot in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one opened the door to the wrong vehicle. A suspect is under arrest

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Tina Burnside, CNN Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle for her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital — one of at least four incidents this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire. Pedro Tello

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