Rachel Dolezal

Doug Clark’s back with a song in his heart about Rachel Dolezal

Carolyn LambersonSeptember 3, 2018 GMT

Doug Clark may have retired from The Spokesman-Review, but that hasn’t kept him from staying abreast of the news.

It also hasn’t kept him from parodying it.

Clark plans to debut his latest “ripped from the headlines” song today at Pig Out in the Park with his band, the Trailer Park Girls.

Former NAACP leader exposed as white faces fraud charges

May 25, 2018 GMT

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — 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...

Shawn Vestal: Rachel Dolezal, back in the eye of the camera

Shawn VestalApril 28, 2018 GMT

DaShawn Bedford grew up in Spokane, graduated from Rogers High School, and taught himself video production. He’s 37, African-American, raising three kids – and his take on Rachel Dolezal is complicated.

Review: Rachel Dolezal documentary fascinating, well-crafted

By MARK KENNEDYApril 25, 2018 GMT

There's a scene at the end of the Netflix documentary about controversial figure Rachel Dolezal when she enters a DMV and comes out a few minutes later with a new name. "A new start," she says. The whole process seems painless and courteous.

Netflix May Have a Sequel with Warren’s Story

The Lowell SunMarch 20, 2018 GMT

U.S. Sen Elizabeth Warren should get Netflix to do a documentary on her just like it is doing on Rachel Dolezal.

You remember Rachel. She is the white woman from Washington state who claimed to be African American.

Rachel Dolezal struggles after racial identity scandal

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSMarch 24, 2017 GMT

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A white civil rights leader, fired because she led others to believe she was black, said she struggles to make a living these days because she was portrayed as a fraud.

Rachel Dolezal said she has been unable to find steady work in the nearly two years since her background became public in media reports, and she is uncertain about her future.

Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal gets new African name

March 2, 2017 GMT

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who resigned amid criticism that she was passing herself off as black, has changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo...