Former Harvard University President Derek C. Bok vividly recalls the day that he, then dean of Harvard Law School, flew to California to recruit Derrick A. Bell Jr. to the Law School’s faculty ...

Apparently, critical race theory is a tough nut to crack. ... Critical Race Theory: What Derrick Bell Taught, And What It Means Now Analysis. By Jacey Fortin Published 03/09/12 AT 5:22 PM EST.

T he late Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell is credited as the father of critical race theory. He began conceptualizing the idea in the 1970s as a way to understand how race and American law ...

Critical Race Theory was largely shaped by law professor Derrick A. Bell Jr., the first Black tenured professor at Harvard University. He examined the effect of race and racism on the country’s ...

It's probably safe to say that most members of the public had never heard of critical race theory before the fall of 2020, when then-U.S. President Donald Trump launched a rhetorical war on it ...

Conservatives are criticizing Barack Obama over a 1991 video that shows him warmly introducing and hugging former Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell, known as the father of “critical race theory ...

But critical race theory is not a single worldview; the people who study it may disagree on some of the finer points. As Professor Crenshaw put it, C.R.T. is more a verb than a noun. “It is a ...

The Association of American Law Schools will give its highest award to Kimberlé Crenshaw, who established the concept of intersectionality and helped to advanceand define critical race theory.