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The mugshot above of Go Lam Mang, 37 is floating around on social media this morning as the man who viciously attacked a Black female customer in a beauty supply store in Charlotte, NC last weekend (click HERE if you missed that).
Well apparently that’s fake news… Continue Reading…
Remember Rachel Dolezal?
How could we forget the former NAACP leader from Spokane, Wash., who resigned after it came to light that she was falsely presenting herself as Black, when in fact, she was 100% Caucasian?
Well, Dolezal is in the news again and oddly enough, now that’s she’s living as a White woman, she’s claiming to be poor and on food stamps.
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Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP chapter president who was accused of pretending to be Black, released a statement today that she would be stepping down from her position (June 15, 2015).
In a post written on the Spokane NAACP Facebook page, Dolezal, who has been the butt of many a joke since being outed in an interview, stands by her commitment to civil rights, but she doesn’t address anything concerning why she lied about her ethnicity.
I have waited in deference while others expressed their feelings, beliefs, confusions and even conclusions – absent the full story. I am consistently committed to empowering marginalized voices and believe that many individuals have been heard in the last hours and days that would not otherwise have had a platform to weigh in on this important discussion. Additionally, I have always deferred to the state and national NAACP leadership and offer my sincere gratitude for their unwavering support of my leadership through this unexpected firestorm.
While Dolezal never addresses the true nature of her departure, her estranged biological parents, who confirmed she is “Caucasian by birth,” responds to her statement in a video interview and they say that hopefully she can one day be true to who she really is.
Read Dolezal’s full statement + watch video of her Parent’s response to the controversy below… Continue Reading…
Meet Gladys and Jamie Scott. The two sisters are each currently serving life sentences in a Mississippi prison.
In 1994, the pair were sentenced to life terms after they were convicted of armed robbery for hitting two men in the head with a shotgun in Forest, Miss., and stealing $11.
The two Mississippi sisters want to go free, but in order for that to happen, one will have to give up a kidney! Continue Reading…
