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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

KHOU, WOODLANDS ELITE CHEER CO., GOOGLE MAPS, ELGIN POLICE DEPARTMENT, GOFUNDME, TWITTER, @BAYLORACROCOACH, CNN, Twitter/@BaylorAcroCoach 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

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

CNN By Nouran Salahieh, Virginia Langmaid and Eric Levenson, CNN A Black teenager who authorities say was shot in the head by an 84-year-old White homeowner after going to the wrong Kansas City address received a positive prognosis but still faces a long road to recovery, according to his attorneys. In a new photo, 16-year-old

By Nouran Salahieh, Virginia Langmaid and Eric Levenson, CNN A Black teenager who authorities say was shot in the head by an 84-year-old White homeowner after going to the wrong Kansas City address received a positive prognosis but still faces a long road to recovery, according to his attorneys. In a new photo, 16-year-old Ralph

By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Six people — including four teenagers — have been arrested and now face murder charges in connection with the deadly rampage at a weekend Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, authorities say. Willie George Brown Jr., 19, was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts

By Celina Tebor, CNN Five men were indicted in connection with more than a dozen robberies at bars and nightclubs in New York City, including three of whom are also charged with murder, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The five men were indicted for “robbing individuals outside bars and nightclubs by drugging them

By Justin Gamble, CNN The National Urban League unveiled on Tuesday its annual report on the state of Black America, saying the nation is under attack from hate and extremism within the country. The report hopes to raise “the alarm around the explosive growth of far-right and domestic extremism and the threat it poses to

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN In two recent cases, two different people approached the wrong house and were both shot by the homeowner without exchanging a single word — one person lost their life from the encounter, another survived and is recovering from gunshot wounds to their head and arm. On April 13, Ralph Yarl, 16,

By Julian Cummings, Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial

By Michelle Watson and Christina Maxouris, CNN A 34-year-old man was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the killings of four people who were found dead earlier in the day at a Bowdoin, Maine, home, authorities said. The killings appeared to be connected to a series of nearby highway shootings that left three drivers injured

By Michelle Watson and Carma Hassan, CNN A 13-year-old in Ohio has died after “he took a bunch of Benadryl,” trying a dangerous TikTok challenge that’s circulating online, according to a CNN affiliate and a GoFundMe account from his family. Jacob Stevens was participating in a TikTok challenge with some friends at home when he

By Kelly McCleary, Melissa Alonso and Chris Youd, CNN Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that “was not fit for a diseased animal.” The Fulton County Jail’s chief jailer and two

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN It’s a surprising fact that’s often overlooked in the immigration debate. Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes annually, between tax returns filed and taxes deducted from paychecks, experts estimate. Here’s a look at why — and how — this is happening. Why some undocumented immigrants choose to

WUSA, FAIRFAX COUNTY, FAMILY PHOTO, CNN By Rashard Rose and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A grand jury has declined to indict a Virginia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect, according to the county prosecutor. Former Fairfax County Police Sergeant Wesley Shifflett was fired and faced a criminal investigation after the shooting death