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Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Leader of Spokane NAACP

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 (SpokaneNAACP.com)

Rachel Dolezal has resigned as president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People following allegations that she misrepresented herself as African-American. Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch joins us to unpack this story and the larger questions it raises about race and identity.

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