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Controversy surrounding her race. shes presented herself as african-american. her parents revealed she is caucasian caucasian. some local naacp members are calling for her leave of absence. joining us is angela jones. thank you for getting up to talk to us about this out there on the west coast. catara i will start with you. you have organized this position and asked for rachel dolezal to take a leave of absence. why not her resignation? >> we have not found all the allegations. all the informat...

The spokane naacp chapter is stepping down. writing in this letter "i have waited in deference while others expressed their feelings absent the full story. it is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice that i step aside. i will never stop fighting for human rights." that resignation changing tonights planned protest into a rally for healing. >> were going to make the conscious decision to forgive rachel forgive all the things that have happened. >> reporter: yet the na...

Stepping up or stepping down because this is not about me, its about justice. this is not me quitting, this is a continuum." as stephanie just reported. i want to bring in joey and midwin again on this. this is something i think a lot of people are so perplexed about. they dont understand why it was she would adopt this identity in order to do this very good work. because there are elements of this woman that are spectacular and then when you see lying you just cant say thats spectacular. how do...

People publicly. all statements have been coming through their facebook page and this is another case of that below. basically shes making the case that this has become a bigger issue around the world about her identity and how she identifies herself and less about the things that need to be focused on here. so shes saying she is removiov herself from that conversation because of this unexpected firestorm as she put it. but there were people here over the week whoend were supportive of her, and ...

That gives china a total of 4 million, millionaires second only to the u.s. thats all for now. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. lets get to work. tonight, afraid of commitment. >> why cant she say whether or not shes for or against it? >> secretary clinton, we need her to speak out right now. >> i will judge whats in the final agreement. >> plus now its official. >> jeb bush goes after the office once held by his father and broth...

Dolezal portrayed herself as shes foreign ministerafrican-american. we can see rachel dolezal as a young girl on the left. you can see her as she lives on the right. we want to discuss with cnn political commentator charles below. thins happened over the weekend. we have to talk to you about this. we know of her shes a professor of african-american studies at eastern western university. she went to a predominantly black university on full citizenship. her family is diverse. she has four adopted ...

Pretty bad. >> 20 years later, juror number 4, david aldana, remembers that moment vividly. >> so that 911 tape made an impact. >> yeah, it did because when you hear somebody pounding on the door like that and hearing nicole say, i think you know his record by now. >> nicoles sister denise tells prosecutors she has seen simpson beat nicole in person. >> he grabbed nicole, told her to get out of his house, wanted us all out of his house, picked her up, threw her against the wall, picked her up an...

Go about the work that weve already set forth, will it be able to continue with leadership that has questionable integrity. >> it was discussed dolezals background during the election. why wasnt it specifically talked about openly during that process? >> during the process of what now? >> the election. >> the election? it wasnt discussed during the election. what was said during the election was not true even. when it said that we were not in compliance with national that we had not paid our due...

There. >> more fall-out of the naacp chapter president who says shes black. what her brother is saying about her thats adding to the controversy. >> there are new details this morning about the plan to help convicted killers the richard matt and david sweat break out of a maximum security prison. mitchell told investigators she was supposed to meet matt and sweat just blocks from the prison where they would make a seven hour drive. >> if they were able to get a car, they could have gone as far o...

President said she will speak to her chapter meeting tomorrow night about allegations that she lied about her race. her parents came forward to say she was born white and has been passing herself off as african-american for years. nbcs haley jackson has that story. >> reporter: rachel dolezal is under fire as there is an investigation whether she lied on this application to serve on this board. her biological parents say shes not black. >> shes caucasian by birth. >> reporter: the naacp is backi...