The Vandenberg
Date: 13 November 1977
By RICHARD R. LINGEMAN
Richard LINGEMAN
In The National Interest (Book): By Marvin Kalb and Ted Koppel revd by Richard R Lingeman
Nkechi Amare Diallo (born Rachel Anne Dolezal; November 12, 1977) is an American former college instructor and activist known for presenting herself as a Black woman, despite being born to white parents. Dolezal was president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, from 2014 until June 2015, when she resigned in the midst of controversy over her racial identity. She was the subject of public scrutiny when her parents publicly stated that she was pretending to be Black but was actually white. The statement by Dolezal's parents followed Dolezal's reports to police and local news media that she had been the victim of race-related hate crimes; a police investigation did not support her allegations. Dolezal also claims that her parents purposely outed her as white to discredit Dolezal's allegations that her brother Joshua Dolezal had molested their adopted sibling.
Dolezal has also claimed on an application form to be mixed-race and had falsely claimed that an African-American man was her father and that her brother was her son. In the aftermath of the controversy, Dolezal was dismissed from her position as an instructor in Africana studies at Eastern Washington University and was removed from her post as chair of the Police Ombudsman Commission in Spokane over "a pattern of misconduct". In 2015, Dolezal acknowledged that she was "born white to white parents" but maintained that she self-identified as Black.
The Dolezal controversy fueled a national debate in the United States about racial identity. Dolezal's critics stated that she committed cultural appropriation and fraud; Dolezal asserted that her self-identification is genuine, claiming to be transracial. In 2017, Dolezal released a memoir on her racial identity titled In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.
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Date: 13 November 1977
By RICHARD R. LINGEMAN
Richard LINGEMAN
In The National Interest (Book): By Marvin Kalb and Ted Koppel revd by Richard R Lingeman
Date: 12 November 1977
By JUAN de ONIS Special to The New York Times
Juan de ONIS
mil junta issues decree formally depriving jailed La Opinion publisher Jacobo Timmerman of his civil rights, placing his property in state custody and authorizing indefinite detention without ct order; case revd (M)
Date: 12 November 1977
By C.L. Sulzberger
C. Sulzberger
C L Sulzberger article, based on conversation with Henry Kissinger, says Kissinger's most singular technical achievement was to develop new negotiating method in which media was encouraged to serve his foreign policy aims; Kissinger opposes idea of powerful Natl Security Adviser to Pres as 'unhealthy' and admits that it applied to himself when he held job; favors idea of another 'Sec for Foreign Affairs' in Cabinet to handle immense burden of negotiations abroad
Date: 13 November 1977
By CAREY WINFREYPhotographs by The New York Times/John Solo
Article on WNEW-TV newscaster Gabe Pressman; illus (M)
Date: 13 November 1977
Mormon Ch public communications dir Wendell J Ashton is named publisher of ch-owned newspaper Desert News; William B Smart will continue as ed-gen mgr (S)
Date: 13 November 1977
Appts Robert Liberman pres (S)
Date: 13 November 1977
French involvement in Western Sahara revd (M)