Movies
A few years before the term “fake news” became commonplace, the media covered the strange case of Rachel Dolezal: a Spokane-based white woman “identifying” as black and accused of lying about being the target of racist hate crimes.
April 26, 2018
“All my mom did is say she was black and people lost their minds.”
April 27, 2018
Television
On Monday, Jon Stewart said what many Americans were thinking when they first heard the bizarre story of Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP and a white woman who has been passing as black for years.
June 16, 2015
World & Nation
June 12, 2015
Food
In case you were wondering what disgraced former NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal was doing with her life besides claiming to be trans-racial and appropriating black culture, she’s making lollipops.
Nov. 15, 2017
Books
Rachel Dolezal, the Washington-state NAACP leader who made headlines last year after it was revealed that she was from a white family, is writing a book about race.
April 13, 2016
Rachel Dolezal has sparked a national conversation about some of the most sensitive issues in American life — race, gender, identity and cultural inheritance.
June 15, 2015
Rachel Dolezal would like to tell her story her way, she explains to Vanity Fair, and thinks a book is the best way to do it.
July 20, 2015
Rachel Dolezal, who was forced to step down as head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Wash., amid allegations that she lied about her race, violated city ethics policy while serving on a police oversight commission, city leaders said Wednesday.
June 17, 2015
Had Maya Rudolph stayed on “Saturday Night Live” until now, we might have seen a more fleshed out version of her Rachel Dolezal impression Seth Meyers helped fill the Maya-shaped “SNL” void on “Late Night” on Monday alongside his former colleague when the actress impersonated the disgraced NAACP leader, who disguised herself as a black woman for years.
June 23, 2015