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Remember ‘Transracial’ Former NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal? She Just Got A Trial Date.

John Bickley

Rachel Dolezal, the white former NAACP Spokane chapter president who described herself as “transracial” because she identified as black, is back in the news, this time for a welfare fraud case. The state of Washington has accused Dolezal, who changed her name legally to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, of illegally receiving nearly $9,000 in welfare assistance, and a judge has finally set a trial date.

The state has accused Dolezal, 41, of illegally receiving $8,747 in food assistance and $100 in child care assistance during a period of over two years, from August 2015 to November 2017.

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