Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who became infamous for posing as a black woman for a decade, was arrested and charged with welfare fraud and other offenses on Monday.
A former NAACP leader in Washington state whose life unraveled after she was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black has been charged with welfare fraud.
Netflix released a clip from its upcoming documentary about Rachel Dolezal – who was born white but spent years posing as a black civil rights leader — and social media exploded with rage and accusations of ‘white privilege.’
Rachel Dolezal – who was born white but spent years posing as a black civil rights leader – is back in the spotlight with a brand new memoir about her life as a “trans-racial” women.
Rachel Dolezal — the white woman, who spent years posing as a black civil rights leader — has reportedly changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, a West African moniker that mean “gift of God.”
Two years after being exposed as a white woman posing as a black civil rights champion, former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal is jobless, welfare dependent, and a month away from being homeless.
Rachel Dolezal, a former NAACP leader and professor who received national media attention after it was revealed that she was a white woman posing as African-American, has been disinvited from a speaking event at a Martin Luther King Jr. festival in North Carolina after a community backlash about her scheduled appearance.
Trans-black activist and former Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter leader Rachel Dolezal announced she is writing a book on “racial identity”.
We’re at the end of another year, and it’s time to look back on 2015. Here’s my recap.
Eyebrows have been raised across the Harry Potter fanbase after the news that Hermione Granger is to be portrayed by a black actress in the new official Potter theatrical production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The production, which follows Harry
The most unsympathetic woman in America, perma-tanned transracial icon Rachel Dolezal, has given an interview to Vice’s women’s channel Broadly in which she is described complaining that she doesn’t get the same adulation from the liberal press that transsexual Caitlyn Jenner does.
In yet another scandal, journalist and activist Shaun King, the man Breitbart revealed was presenting himself as a biracial leader to the Black Lives Matter movement while having no idea whether he was even black, is under fire from his own supporters.
For her upcoming November Vanity Fair feature, pop star Rihanna strips down, while also heaping high praise on Rachel Dolezal and explaining why she thought she could change Chris Brown after he assaulted her in 2009.
In an emotional blog post on the Daily Kos website today, embattled Black Lives Matter organizer Shaun King finally revealed his secret: he had no idea who his real father is. King’s account confirmed all the key details of Breitbart’s reporting. “Until this past week,”
Dolezal and King make it clear that America’s attempts to repair the effects of that horrific history have now made black skin advantageous for a certain subset of activists, which is why people like Dolezal and now allegedly King have masqueraded as black for personal advantage.
With Milo Yiannopoulos’ shocking report that Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is in fact white – according to Yiannopoulos, quoting blogger Vicki Page, “King is white and has been lying about his ethnicity for years” – taboo questions now arise about the nature of race in America.
Three years before the Obama Administration cynically decided to remove Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill and replace him with a woman, the Washington Post reported that Rachel Dolezal posted a video in which she ranted about the “older white
Kelly Osbourne is taking heat for dressing up as former Spokane, WA, NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, who misrepresented herself as black for years, and posting an image of it on her Instagram page.
On Thursday’s “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann opened his show with a monologue speaking about former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, deceased American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Effa Manley, who was
Columbia University linguistics Professor John McWhorter declared that Rachel Dolezal “converted to blackness for the victimhood” on Wednesday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” on MSNBC. McWhorter denied that there is a similarity between Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner because “We’re not talking
On his Wednesday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh observed the latest controversy surrounding Rachel Dolezal and her claim that she is black is evidence that things are “backwards” and the culture is “insane.” Limbaugh referenced a University of Pennsylvania
According to the Daily Mail, Rachel Dolezal, the white woman and head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who masqueraded as black until her parents outed her, claimed that her former husband, Kevin Moore, who is genuinely black, made her perform sex acts on camera.
Last December, the biblically inspired Christian Bale film Exodus: Gods and Kings opened to boycotts for using white actors to play North African and Hebrew characters.
Former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal said that Bruce Jenner’s Vanity Fair story “resonated” with her in some ways on Wednesday’s “Today” on NBC.
Former Spokane NAACP Head Rachel Dolezal said her critics “don’t know what I’ve actually walked through, and how hard it is” in an interview with Melissa Harris-Perry broadcast on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” Dolezal said
UPDATE: On “All In with Chris Hayes” on Tuesday, Harris-Perry conceded that it is a possibility that Dolezal could be a con artist. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry declared that she didn’t get a “sense of” “malice, deception, or self-gain” on
According to her 2002 lawsuit, Rachel Dolezal (who then identified as her true self: the very Caucasian Rachel Moore) believed she had been discriminated against for being white, and that this discrimination had not just cost her a teaching position
In an op-ed for Time magazine, former NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar threw his support behind embattled former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who was outed by her parents as white last week after representing herself as African-American for years.
The saga of Rachel Dolezal, the 37 year-old blonde-haired, freckle-faced white woman who was caught pretending to be black, just got a whole lot more interesting.
***UPDATE (with headline change): Breitbart News spoke with David Meany, the person in charge of media relations at Eastern Washington University (EWU), where Rachel Dolezal was listed as a professor of Africana Studies. He said Dolezal’s contract with EWU expired
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg defended Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, who was living as an African-American woman for the last few years. “She wants to be a black woman?” Goldberg said.
On a sunny day, in lower Manhattan, we heard the cries of a man who appeared in anguish.
At the White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked about the widely talked about story, and for the president’s reaction. “The White House does not have any comment, and I haven’t had the chance to talk to him about it,” Earnest said, referring to President Obama.
CNN “Legal View” host Ashleigh Banfield said that “because I’m white,” she couldn’t say if former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black is offensive on Monday. Banfield asked, “Is there some kind of an offense or is
Pop singer Keri Hilson made waves on social media this weekend when she suggested that people “thank” Rachel Dolezal, the embattled president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP who was outed as white by her parents after representing herself as an African-American woman for years.
