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  • June 18, 2015

    Study illuminates why multiracial Americans almost never call themselves white

    New Pew research is a reminder that identity is informed by more than just mathematical calculations of heritage.

  • June 16, 2015

    Rachel Dolezal: "Well, I definitely am not white"

    In a series of interviews, the former NAACP chapter president accused of lying about her race reaffirmed that she identifies as black.

  • June 16, 2015

    12 burning questions for Rachel Dolezal, including, "Can Donald Trump be black, too?"

    And, "Are being black and feeling black the same thing?" If she's going to do this, we need answers.

  • June 16, 2015

    The editor of America's first black daily newspaper was pulling a Rachel Dolezal

    "As they have told me a hundred times, I really am one of them"

  • June 16, 2015

    Jon Stewart nails the complete confusion many of us first felt about Rachel Dolezal

    "Whaaaaaaaat?!"

  • June 15, 2015

    White people have been passing for black for centuries. A historian explains.

    As historian Baz Dreisinger shows, there are all sorts of reasons for white people to pass for black. Are some more defensible than others?

  • June 12, 2015

    How to make sense of Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP official accused of passing for black

    Her story is mind-bending, but so is the concept of race itself.

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