Flap over NAACP leader in Spokane goes on
FILE- In this March 2, 2015 file photo, Rachel Dolezal, president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, poses for a photo in her Spokane, Wash. home. Dolezal is facing questions about whether she lied about her racial identity, with her family saying.
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���It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the presidency and pass the baton to my vice president, Naima Quarles-Burnley.��� Dolezal served as president of the��.
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Rachel Dolezal has resigned from her position as president of Spokanes NAACP chapter. ���Please know I will never stop fighting for human rights and will do everything in my power to help and assist, whether it means��.
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NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Resigns Over Race.
Rachel Dolezal, the president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, has resigned, according to a letter from her that was posted Monday on the NAACP Spokane Facebook page. Dolezal did not address allegations��.
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Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President.
In the eye of this current storm, I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP, Dolezal wrote in a Facebook post. It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and��.
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���It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley,��� she wrote. ���Please know I will never stop fighting for human.
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But as far as the NAACP is concerned, her race doesnt matter. There are other chapter leaders throughout the country who arent African-American. Donald Harris is one of them. The 77-year-old white, Jewish Brooklynite��.
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Rachel Dolezal, the ���black��� activist who caused a national sensation when it was revealed she was actually white and faking her own black heritage, announced Monday she was stepping down as head of Spokanes NAACP��.
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Credibility of local NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal questioned
Controversy is swirling around one of the Inland Northwests most prominent civil rights activists, with family members of Rachel Dolezal saying the local leader of the NAACP has been falsely portraying herself as black for��.
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Rachel Dolezal is president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, a Howard University graduate, an adjunct professor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University, and, according to her application to��.
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Rachel Dolezal, 37, is the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as at least partly African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two parents who say they are Caucasian. The parents shared that.
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Everyone is way too hung up on NAACP leader Rachel Dolezals race. according to Dolezal herself -- who just announced shes resigning as President of���
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Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, parents of Spokane, Washington, NAACP President Rachel Dolezal, talk about why their daughter might be masquerading as African-American. Race of Rachel Dolezal, head of Spokane NAACP, comes under question. By Ben .
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On Monday, Rachel Dolezal stepped down as president from the Spokane, Washington NAACP while name dropping the Black Liberation movement, Chattel Slavery and self-determination. What she didnt mention is the ���full��.
Rachel Dolezal Resigns As President Of Spokane NAACP
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Rachel Dolezal postpones meeting with NAACP board in.
Rachel Dolezal notifed Spokane NAACP members today that a meeting scheduled to take place Monday has been postponed. The meeting was to have allowed Dolezal, the organizations president, to address the growing��.
The civil-rights leader accused of pretending to be black just resigned
Still, the Eastern Washington University professor decided that in the eye of this current storm, I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP. In the end, she reiterated her commitment to.
White NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Is BISEXUAL Too!
Dolezal, who was born white but became the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) Spokane, Wash. chapter after representing herself as African-American (her supporters claim��.
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Members of the Spokane NAACP chapter plan to demonstrate today over the controversy enveloping their president, Rachel Dolezal, who said Sunday shes not ready to face them and explain claims she has lied about her��.
Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal steps down
SPOKANE, Wash. ��� Rachel Dolezal, the embattled president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, stepped down from her post Monday amid questions surrounding her racial identity. In a statement the chapter posted on Facebook on Monday, Dolezal .
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Rachel Dolezal resigns, according to letter on NAACP.
SPOKANE, Washington ��� The president of the NAACP Spokane, Washington, chapter Rachel Dolezal has resigned, according to a letter from her which was posted Monday on the NAACP Spokane Facebook page. [Original��.
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Dolezal sent out an email Sunday canceling the monthly membership meeting due to the need to continue discussion with regional and national NAACP leaders. Shortly after her announcement, the head of the chapters executive committee, Lawrence .
BREAKING: Rachel Dolezal Steps Down from Spokane.
After a weekend of scrutiny over her race, Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal announced she was stepping down from her position. Dolezal became the center.
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(AP) -- The leader of the NAACP in Spokane is facing calls to step aside after her parents said the 37-year-old activist falsely portrayed herself as black for years. Rachel Dolezal canceled a chapter meeting Monday where she was expected to speak.
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On Fridays Anderson Cooper 360, during a discussion of revelations that Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal is a white woman who has spent years pretending to be black, liberal CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill oddly asserted that her actions .
NAACP Issues Statement on Local Chapter President Outed.
The NAACP is standing behind Rachel Dolezal, president of the organizations chapter in Spokane, Washington, whos under fire after her parents came forward saying she is white. Ones racial identity is not a qualifying��.
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NAACP meeting canceled; Rachel Dolezal was to respond to accusations she.
A Monday meeting of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP has been canceled as the local groups president faces accusations of being a white woman posing as a black woman. ���Due to the need to continue discussion with regional and national .