That’s the take of one former acquaintance on the Rachel Dolezal story. After her national coming out Tuesday on “Today,” the former Spokane NAACP leader is attracting, if anything, even more comment and analysis. The New York Times offers the deepest profile yet of the white woman who has presented herself as black.
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‘Like hearing a black song from a white artist’
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