The Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama NAACP on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Alabama, alleging that officials violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act when they enacted a strict Voter ID law.
Rachel Dolezal is finally coming to terms with the truth that she was biologically born white.
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In a week chock-full of events and political moves that highlight the need for criminal justice reform in the nation, President Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia Tuesday to deliver remarks focused on policing and prisons at the NAACP’s 106th National Convention. Just a day prior, Obama granted clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders; the most a president […]
As Rachel Dolezal continues to defend her identity as a Black woman, the 37-year-old is leaving even more people puzzled, recently claiming she might not be biologically related to her parents. Shortly after her interview on The Today Show with Matt Lauer, Rachel opened up to Savannah Guthrie on NBC News about her race and ethnicity. Dolezal, […]
%3Cdiv%20style=%22position:relative;%20padding-bottom:63%25;%20padding-bottom:-webkit-calc(56.25%25%20+%2050px);%20padding-bottom:calc(56.25%25%20+%2050px);%20height:%200;%22%3E%3Ciframe%20style=%22position:absolute;%20width:%20100%25;%20height:%20100%25;%22%20src=%22http://www.today.com/offsite/rachel-dolezal-breaks-her-silence-i-identify-as-black-465269315945%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%220%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3C/div%3E In a 10-minute-long Today Show interview Tuesday morning, the former president of the Spokane, Wash. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) confirmed what we already knew. Rachel Dolezal, in all her braids and “natural” curly ‘fro glory, identifies as a Black woman. It’s no secret. Dolezal’s biological (and […]
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