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Remember Her? Rachel Dolezal Disinvited from Martin Luther King, Jr. Event after Outcry

Remember Her? Rachel Dolezal Disinvited from Martin Luther King, Jr. Event after Outcry

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You can’t make this up:

iting a “negative community response” after news broke of Rachel Dolezal’s inclusion in an upcoming diversity summit during Cary, North Carolina’s Martin Luther King Jr. Dreamfest, the company which had booked her appearance soon withdrew her name from the event.

A former adjunct at Eastern Washington University and leader of the Spokane, Washington NAACP, Dolezal was to be part of “a panel discussion on racial identity and race relations with representatives of the NAACP and professors from area universities,” according to The News & Observer.

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