Champion of black rights ‘is white’

Controversy is swirling around a prominent civil rights activist, with family members saying a local leader of America’s National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People has falsely portrayed herself as black for years.

Rachel Dolezal is president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP; chair of the city’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission; and an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University.

The 37-year-old stormed out of an interview yesterday after she had been ‘outed’ by her family.