Rachel Anne Dolezal, also known as Nkechi Amare Diallo, is an American former college professor and activist. She was president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, from 2014 until June 2015, when she resigned in the midst of controversy over her racial identity. Her parents publicly stated that she was passing as black. In 2015, she acknowledged she was white, but maintained that she self-identified asblack. In 2017, she released a memoir, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World. In May 2018, she was charged by the State of Washington with felony theft by welfare fraud and second degree perjury in May 2018.
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Rachel Anne Dolezal, also known as Nkechi Amare Diallo, is an American former college professor and activist known for identifying as a black woman despite having been born to white parents. She was president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, from 2014 until June 2015, when she resigned in the midst of controversy over her racial identity. Her parents publicly stated that she was passing as black. In 2015, she acknowledged she was white, but maintained that she self-identified asblack. In 2017, she released a memoir, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World. In May 2018, she was charged by the State of Washington with felony theft by welfare fraud and second degree perjury in May 2018. She agreed to repay the welfare funds and to perform community service. In 2010, she married Kevin Moore, a black man, at the time of their marriage. In 2004, she divorced Moore, and they have a son, Franklin Franklin Moore, who was born in 2008. DolezAl has said she was born and lived in a teepee and that the family had hunted for their food with bow and arrow. She has contended that her parents frequently abused her. In a 2017 interview, she claimed she was taught to believe that “everything that came naturally, instinctively was wrong’ —a point that was “literally beaten into us’”. In a 2010 interview, Dolez al said she. was nearly sexually assaulted by a “trusted mentor” when attending Howard University and that that was nearly impossible to “suing’”.
In 2011, she wrote a book about her experiences at Howard University, “In Full Color’s Black Girl, White Girl, Black Man, Black Woman, Black Power, Black Love,” which was published by Simon & Schuster. In 2012, she published a follow-up book, ‘Black Woman, White Man, White Race,’ about her experience at Howard and her experiences as a ‘black woman, black woman, and black woman.’ In the book, she said she had been “punished by skin complexion’ by her mother and white stepfather’ and compared this alleged punishment to the punishment suffered by black slaves. In 2013, she admitted that she had “misunderstood’ the meaning of “black” and “white” as well as “African American’. In 2014, she resigned from her position as an instructor in Africana studies at Eastern Washington University and was removed from her post as chair of the Police Ombudsman Commission in Spokane over “a pattern of misconduct” She is also a former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter president. She received public scrutiny when her white parents publicly said that she. had been the victim of race-related hate crimes; however, a subsequent police investigation had failed to substantiate her allegations. She also identified herself as mixed-race on an application and had claimed that an African-American man was her father.
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