One notable effect of the internet is that the question “Whatever happened to so-and-so?” is all too easy to answer. And, more often than not, you’ll realize you shouldn’t have asked.
In the case of Rachel Dolezal, the 44-year-old white woman who rose to infamy in 2015 when it emerged that she had long lied about being Black — a scandal that led to her resignation as an NAACP chapter president and dismissal from her job as a college instructor in Africana studies — here’s a quick recap: She published a memoir,...
In the case of Rachel Dolezal, the 44-year-old white woman who rose to infamy in 2015 when it emerged that she had long lied about being Black — a scandal that led to her resignation as an NAACP chapter president and dismissal from her job as a college instructor in Africana studies — here’s a quick recap: She published a memoir,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Jeremy O. Harris knows exactly how big his plans are: “I think for me to call myself ambitious would be an understatement,” he acknowledged on a recent call from Rome.
But the playwright, performer, producer and budding director is building the career to back it up. His Broadway buzzmagnet “Slave Play” earned a whopping 12 Tony nominations, breaking a record set by “Angels in America,” and he’s expanded into writing for film (“Zola”) and TV (“Euphoria”). He also turned heads when he convinced HBO, as part of his overall deal with the network, to give him a discretionary fund to produce new, experimental stage work. During the pandemic, he’s used that money to back two digital/theater hybrid productions, “Circle Jerk” and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” that have gotten Theater Twitter talking in recent months.
And there’s a lot more on his plate. Harris, who was in...
But the playwright, performer, producer and budding director is building the career to back it up. His Broadway buzzmagnet “Slave Play” earned a whopping 12 Tony nominations, breaking a record set by “Angels in America,” and he’s expanded into writing for film (“Zola”) and TV (“Euphoria”). He also turned heads when he convinced HBO, as part of his overall deal with the network, to give him a discretionary fund to produce new, experimental stage work. During the pandemic, he’s used that money to back two digital/theater hybrid productions, “Circle Jerk” and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” that have gotten Theater Twitter talking in recent months.
And there’s a lot more on his plate. Harris, who was in...
- 11/13/2020
- by Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
Amber Woodhouse is exhausted. The Nashville-based singer and musician, who joined Steve Gorman’s roots-rock band Trigger Hippy last year, is tired of being your token black friend. Woodhouse plainly says as much in a first-person poem that the Minneapolis native wrote after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.
Woodhouse happened to be visiting her parents’ when Floyd was killed and was out for a bike ride in Minnehaha Park, not far from where he died. When she returned home and heard about the incident, she was shaken.
Woodhouse happened to be visiting her parents’ when Floyd was killed and was out for a bike ride in Minnehaha Park, not far from where he died. When she returned home and heard about the incident, she was shaken.
- 7/15/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The 2018 TCA Awards are all handed out, but there was more to see Saturday than just some trophy presentations. TheWrap was in attendance at the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom, where Robin Thede emceed the annual summer event.
Here’s what else we witnessed:
We’re All Winners!
Well, not really — but here’s the complete list of people who did win.
Also Read: TCA Awards Winners: 'The Americans' Nabs Top Honors, Anthony Bourdain Wins Posthumously
Robin Thede’s New Gig
In July, Bet canceled late-night comedy series “The Rundown With Robin Thede.” On Saturday, Thede was all ours.
To open, Thede asked all in attendance to stand with hands over hearts, then cued the theme song to “The Americans,” our new national anthem. Politics aside, it was the FX thriller’s night. Later in the monologue, Thede cracked jokes about the Trumps, “Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Crown,” Rachel Dolezal,...
Here’s what else we witnessed:
We’re All Winners!
Well, not really — but here’s the complete list of people who did win.
Also Read: TCA Awards Winners: 'The Americans' Nabs Top Honors, Anthony Bourdain Wins Posthumously
Robin Thede’s New Gig
In July, Bet canceled late-night comedy series “The Rundown With Robin Thede.” On Saturday, Thede was all ours.
To open, Thede asked all in attendance to stand with hands over hearts, then cued the theme song to “The Americans,” our new national anthem. Politics aside, it was the FX thriller’s night. Later in the monologue, Thede cracked jokes about the Trumps, “Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Crown,” Rachel Dolezal,...
- 8/5/2018
- by Tony Maglio and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Rachel Dolezal, once president of the Washington State NAACP before her true white identity was exposed, is now facing charges of welfare fraud. Her parents outed her in 2015, which caused her to land on international news. She posed herself as a black woman for years and legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016. But […]
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- 5/25/2018
- by Gillian Kenah
- Uinterview
Weekend Update on “SNL” had plenty of Donald Trump headlines for its season finale, even bringing up that earlier on Saturday the president tweeted about first lady Melania, misspelling her name “Melanie.”
The segment kicked off with Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost noting that Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Russian interference in 2016 elections.
Co-host Michael Che referenced Trump’s sarcastic tweet about the investigation, in which he called Mueller’s probe “the greatest witch hunt in American history,” then joked that, actually, the witch hunt is pretty great from his point of view.
Also Read: 'SNL': Baldwin's Trump Celebrates the Anniversary of the Mueller Investigation with a 'Sopranos' Parody (Video)
You’ll find the transcript of the segment below, and you can watch it in the video embedded at that top of this post.
Jost: “Well, Thursday marked...
The segment kicked off with Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost noting that Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Russian interference in 2016 elections.
Co-host Michael Che referenced Trump’s sarcastic tweet about the investigation, in which he called Mueller’s probe “the greatest witch hunt in American history,” then joked that, actually, the witch hunt is pretty great from his point of view.
Also Read: 'SNL': Baldwin's Trump Celebrates the Anniversary of the Mueller Investigation with a 'Sopranos' Parody (Video)
You’ll find the transcript of the segment below, and you can watch it in the video embedded at that top of this post.
Jost: “Well, Thursday marked...
- 5/20/2018
- by Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
There are stage five clingers — and then there is Jacqueline Ades. The Arizona woman was arrested for allegedly sending a man 65,000 text messages. The 31-year-old was charged with threatening, stalking, and harassing the victim after meeting on an online dating site and going on just one date. According to a police report from the Paradise Valley Police Department, the incidents started all the way back in July 2017, when Jacqueline was found parked in front of the victim's home after he told her he didn't want any more contact with her. In December, police received another report that Jacqueline returned to the residence, but they were unable to locate her. She has also not stopped sending the victim threatening text messages — up to 500 a day! Fast forward to April 8, 2018, and Jacqueline was spotted on his home surveillance video taking a bath inside his house while he was out of the country.
- 5/11/2018
- by Anna Quintana
- In Touch Weekly
The year is 2018 and somehow, a foul-mouthed, bratty, nine-year-old "rapper" by the name of Lil Tay has become a relevant force on the Internet. So much so, that people are actually concerned about her well-being. Specifically, whether or not Lil Tay has been picked up by Child Protective Services in Los Angeles, CA. Recently, a report from Huzlers.com surfaced, stating that Lil Tay was removed from her family home in Beverly Hills on May 4. "Lil Tay was picked up by child protective services Friday afternoon when service agents visited Lil Tay and her families [Sic] home in Beverly Hills," the statement read. "Agents decided to pick up Lil Tay after one of her Instagram videos was shown in the child service office. It’s reported that multiple agents immediately sprung into action and raced to Lil Tay’s home, even using emergency vehicle sirens." The report even included statements from...
- 5/7/2018
- by Melissa Copelton
- In Touch Weekly
In the age of wokeness and empathic inclusivity, Rachel Dolezal might be one of the most tone deaf people in America. In 2015, she became infamous when it was revealed that Dolezal—the then-President of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington—was not African American and had lied about being Black. Dolezal had appropriated Blackness, and lied about hate crimes perpetrated against her. Afterward, she doubled down on the idea that she was Black and misguidedly leaned into the idea that she was “transracial.” So when it was announced the controversial figure would be the subject a new Netflix documentary— “The Rachel Divide,” directed by Laura Brownson— the idea was met with outrage fierce backlash.
- 4/27/2018
- by Valerie Complex
- The Playlist
It's perhaps not surprising that a documentary about controversial figure Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP head revealed in 2015 to be a white woman pretending to be a black woman, would generate a lively debate full of provocative questions.
And that's exactly what happened when the Netflix film about Dolezal, titled <em>The Rachel Divide</em>, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Laura Brownson directed and co-wrote the doc about Dolezal (now named Nkechi Amare Diallo).
The film explores Dolezal's past and shows what happened after she made headlines and how she's rebuilt her life....
And that's exactly what happened when the Netflix film about Dolezal, titled <em>The Rachel Divide</em>, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Laura Brownson directed and co-wrote the doc about Dolezal (now named Nkechi Amare Diallo).
The film explores Dolezal's past and shows what happened after she made headlines and how she's rebuilt her life....
- 4/25/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Rachel Dolezal doesn’t get it. In Laura Brownson’s intimate documentary, “The Rachel Divide,” the controversial figure gets another platform to tell her life story as a “transracial” civil rights activist unable to come to terms with the impact of her lies. While the film inspires the kind of empathy that’s so often missing in works that chronicle people ravaged by social media mobs and a vicious news cycle, “The Rachel Divide” lets Dolezal continue to dictate the experience through her own perspective, and even hard-hitting words from a handful of sharp critics are drowned out by Dolezal’s unflagging resistance to facing up to her misdeeds.
At one point in the film, a talking head muses about the various open questions still remaining about Dolezal, coming to the conclusion that two disparate facts about her can both be true at the same time, which eventually emerges as...
At one point in the film, a talking head muses about the various open questions still remaining about Dolezal, coming to the conclusion that two disparate facts about her can both be true at the same time, which eventually emerges as...
- 4/25/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
It's perhaps not surprising that a documentary about controversial figure Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP head revealed in 2015 to be a white woman pretending to be a black woman, would generate a lively debate full of provocative questions.
And that's exactly what happened when the Netflix film about Dolezal, titled The Rachel Divide, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Laura Brownson directed and co-wrote the doc about Dolezal (now named Nkechi Amare Diallo).
The film explores Dolezal's past and shows what happened after she made headlines and how she's rebuilt her life. In doing so,...
And that's exactly what happened when the Netflix film about Dolezal, titled The Rachel Divide, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Laura Brownson directed and co-wrote the doc about Dolezal (now named Nkechi Amare Diallo).
The film explores Dolezal's past and shows what happened after she made headlines and how she's rebuilt her life. In doing so,...
- 4/25/2018
- by Zoe Haylock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Documentary filmmaker Laura Brownson has chosen to make a film about Rachel Dolezal, the former president of an NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, who was outed as white and formerly blonde-haired by a news reporter in 2015. The vague title that Brownson has chosen is “The Rachel Divide,” which would suggest that there might be something to debate in Dolezal’s story. This most certainly is not the case.
Dolezal wears her hair in elaborate dreadlocks most of the time in this film (which premieres April 27 on Netflix) and sometimes sports a curly wig. Her hairdos are so over-the-top that they look like they were meant to attract attention, and attention is clearly something that Dolezal craves, whatever she might say to the contrary. She refuses to give up her hairdos, which have become her trademark. What we are dealing with here seems to be a pathology where Dolezal is seeking negative attention and abuse. If she doesn’t get that negative attention or abuse, Dolezal is not above fabricating it.
“Who’s the gatekeeper for blackness?” Dolezal asks at one point, in her thin, nagging, disembodied voice. We see her raising her two teenaged male sons, who have to deal with the trouble she brings wherever they go. And when the expected sob story of her past finally emerges, it proves to be just as thin as her speaking voice.
Watch Video: Rachel Dolezal Ripped by Son in Trailer for New Netflix Doc: 'I Resent Some of Her Choices'
Dolezal was raised by white parents who were very religious and who favored her older brother. Dolezal’s parents adopted four other children, all of whom were African-American, and they lived in a very white area of Montana. Dolezal’s adopted sister Esther is the only family member we see much of in the film. (Her parents are only seen via interviews from television news sources.) Esther shows us scars from beatings she claims to have gotten from her adoptive parents, and she says that she was sexually abused by Dolezal’s older brother. Esther brought a court case against this brother that Dolezal herself was participating in, but this fell apart after Dolezal was exposed in 2015.
If Brownson was so set upon making a film about Dolezal, surely she should have pressed more into this family history and pressed Dolezal herself about it. We do see Dolezal attacked and pressed throughout this movie, but by journalists, college students, and former colleagues at the NAACP, and their verbal attacks are increasingly scathing and un-answerable.
Also Read: Rachel Dolezal Slammed for 'Coolest Prince on the Planet' Sweatshirt After H&M Gaffe
Dolezal desperately tries to align herself with absurd terms like “trans racial” in order to try to find some way of making her way of life acceptable, but she always comes up short, and it is impossible to have any sympathy for her because she is so transparently a manipulator and a guilt-tripper. Dolezal gives herself away particularly here in the moment when she says that the negative response she got in the wake of her public outing made her think of her abusive parents.
It seems clear that Dolezal is seeking condemnation, and that she likely wanted to be exposed because only that would give her the twisted form of attention she is seeking. But all of this is a subject only for a psychologist, and it’s not even a particularly interesting subject. Dolezal’s story has nothing to do with race or racial perceptions beyond the racial performance element in her self-presentation that calls up all kinds of ugly memories of white entertainers performing in blackface.
The mark of a successful documentary, and a worthy subject for a documentary, is how much it can make us think about and consider various issues and various complications. There is nothing complicated about Rachel Dolezal’s story. It turns out to be small and far too specific to have any bearing on anything beyond the sickness of one highly unpleasant and repellent individual.
Watch Video: Rachel Dolezal Blames 'White Media' for Her Troubles
So why did Brownson choose to extend Dolezal’s 15 minutes of fame with this movie rather than celebrate or tell the story of an actual living African-American woman? The answer is that Dolezal is basically outrage clickbait in human form, and so Brownson is using Dolezal’s negative attention seeking to get attention for herself as a filmmaker. Nothing beyond that has been accomplished here.
Brownson winds things up with a montage of photos from Dolezal’s youth where we can see that as a teenager she dressed up several times in Asian garb, and so she seems to have had an Asian period as well. Whatever other racial identities Dolezal decides to try out in the future will hopefully be performed in obscurity.
Read original story ‘The Rachel Divide’ Film Review: Rachel Dolezal Doc Is Non-Illuminating Clickbait At TheWrap...
Dolezal wears her hair in elaborate dreadlocks most of the time in this film (which premieres April 27 on Netflix) and sometimes sports a curly wig. Her hairdos are so over-the-top that they look like they were meant to attract attention, and attention is clearly something that Dolezal craves, whatever she might say to the contrary. She refuses to give up her hairdos, which have become her trademark. What we are dealing with here seems to be a pathology where Dolezal is seeking negative attention and abuse. If she doesn’t get that negative attention or abuse, Dolezal is not above fabricating it.
“Who’s the gatekeeper for blackness?” Dolezal asks at one point, in her thin, nagging, disembodied voice. We see her raising her two teenaged male sons, who have to deal with the trouble she brings wherever they go. And when the expected sob story of her past finally emerges, it proves to be just as thin as her speaking voice.
Watch Video: Rachel Dolezal Ripped by Son in Trailer for New Netflix Doc: 'I Resent Some of Her Choices'
Dolezal was raised by white parents who were very religious and who favored her older brother. Dolezal’s parents adopted four other children, all of whom were African-American, and they lived in a very white area of Montana. Dolezal’s adopted sister Esther is the only family member we see much of in the film. (Her parents are only seen via interviews from television news sources.) Esther shows us scars from beatings she claims to have gotten from her adoptive parents, and she says that she was sexually abused by Dolezal’s older brother. Esther brought a court case against this brother that Dolezal herself was participating in, but this fell apart after Dolezal was exposed in 2015.
If Brownson was so set upon making a film about Dolezal, surely she should have pressed more into this family history and pressed Dolezal herself about it. We do see Dolezal attacked and pressed throughout this movie, but by journalists, college students, and former colleagues at the NAACP, and their verbal attacks are increasingly scathing and un-answerable.
Also Read: Rachel Dolezal Slammed for 'Coolest Prince on the Planet' Sweatshirt After H&M Gaffe
Dolezal desperately tries to align herself with absurd terms like “trans racial” in order to try to find some way of making her way of life acceptable, but she always comes up short, and it is impossible to have any sympathy for her because she is so transparently a manipulator and a guilt-tripper. Dolezal gives herself away particularly here in the moment when she says that the negative response she got in the wake of her public outing made her think of her abusive parents.
It seems clear that Dolezal is seeking condemnation, and that she likely wanted to be exposed because only that would give her the twisted form of attention she is seeking. But all of this is a subject only for a psychologist, and it’s not even a particularly interesting subject. Dolezal’s story has nothing to do with race or racial perceptions beyond the racial performance element in her self-presentation that calls up all kinds of ugly memories of white entertainers performing in blackface.
The mark of a successful documentary, and a worthy subject for a documentary, is how much it can make us think about and consider various issues and various complications. There is nothing complicated about Rachel Dolezal’s story. It turns out to be small and far too specific to have any bearing on anything beyond the sickness of one highly unpleasant and repellent individual.
Watch Video: Rachel Dolezal Blames 'White Media' for Her Troubles
So why did Brownson choose to extend Dolezal’s 15 minutes of fame with this movie rather than celebrate or tell the story of an actual living African-American woman? The answer is that Dolezal is basically outrage clickbait in human form, and so Brownson is using Dolezal’s negative attention seeking to get attention for herself as a filmmaker. Nothing beyond that has been accomplished here.
Brownson winds things up with a montage of photos from Dolezal’s youth where we can see that as a teenager she dressed up several times in Asian garb, and so she seems to have had an Asian period as well. Whatever other racial identities Dolezal decides to try out in the future will hopefully be performed in obscurity.
Read original story ‘The Rachel Divide’ Film Review: Rachel Dolezal Doc Is Non-Illuminating Clickbait At TheWrap...
- 4/24/2018
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
It's somewhat off the mark to characterize Rachel Dolezal as a divisive figure. Pretty much everyone lined up against her, when, in 2015, the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP was exposed as a white woman passing as black. There were a few high-profile defenders (The Hollywood Reporter contributor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among them), but mainly she was ridiculed and scorned, and a passionate and effective local civil rights leader became a national pariah and a late-night punchline.
To say that sales of her 2017 memoir were paltry would be the understatement of the century. All copies in...
To say that sales of her 2017 memoir were paltry would be the understatement of the century. All copies in...
- 4/24/2018
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After working for years as president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal made national headlines in 2015 when it was revealed that she was a white woman — a designation she staunchly rejected, saying she identified as black. Laura Brownson’s intimate and canny “The Rachel Divide” picks up with Dolezal shortly after that tumultuous moment and charts her uneasy process of self-definition in the searing media spotlight. The portrait it paints is sure to confound and infuriate in equal measure. Far from simply a snapshot of a discussion about race, Brownson’s documentary is a riveting account of self-sabotage, misplaced priorities, and obstinacy run amok. Following its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, it should be a big draw on Netflix.
The film’s title refers far more to Dolezal’s internal struggle than to the debate surrounding her, since virtually everyone featured in Brownson’s doc,...
The film’s title refers far more to Dolezal’s internal struggle than to the debate surrounding her, since virtually everyone featured in Brownson’s doc,...
- 4/24/2018
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
A controversial figure is the subject of a thought-provoking yet problematic film that prioritizes a white woman’s feelings over the damage she has caused
Rarely has a film been so uneagerly anticipated. When word got out that Netflix was releasing a documentary about Rachel Dolezal, the controversial white woman who identifies as black, many people were furious. Understandably so. Getting a movie made about your life because you appropriated blackness and then lied about it seems like peak white privilege. What, large swaths of social media wanted to know, was Netflix thinking?
A cynic might say they were thinking that controversy equals free publicity. Netflix’s own defence of The Rachel Divide was far more high-minded, of course. Last month Netflix responded to the backlash about the documentary on Twitter, stressing that the film isn’t just about Dolezal but explores her “life as a microcosm for a larger...
Rarely has a film been so uneagerly anticipated. When word got out that Netflix was releasing a documentary about Rachel Dolezal, the controversial white woman who identifies as black, many people were furious. Understandably so. Getting a movie made about your life because you appropriated blackness and then lied about it seems like peak white privilege. What, large swaths of social media wanted to know, was Netflix thinking?
A cynic might say they were thinking that controversy equals free publicity. Netflix’s own defence of The Rachel Divide was far more high-minded, of course. Last month Netflix responded to the backlash about the documentary on Twitter, stressing that the film isn’t just about Dolezal but explores her “life as a microcosm for a larger...
- 4/24/2018
- by Arwa Mahdawi
- The Guardian - Film News
Frank Wuterich, Sandra Bland and Rachel Dolezal captured the attention of the country for weeks, sometimes months, only to eventually be eclipsed by fresher faces in the news.
But documentary filmmakers couldn’t forget their stories – or those of other news makers. So they decided to investigate further, peeling back the proverbial onion on stories that had once been under a short-term microscope. The result is seven documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that explore the truths, the lies and the aftermath of stories we thought that we knew.
Michael Epstein got the idea to make “House Two” 12 years ago when he read about the 2005 Haditha, Iraq, massacre, where U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children — some of them at close range inside a small bedroom.
“I began working on this film when the massacre was a part of media diet,” Epstein says. “I thought I...
But documentary filmmakers couldn’t forget their stories – or those of other news makers. So they decided to investigate further, peeling back the proverbial onion on stories that had once been under a short-term microscope. The result is seven documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that explore the truths, the lies and the aftermath of stories we thought that we knew.
Michael Epstein got the idea to make “House Two” 12 years ago when he read about the 2005 Haditha, Iraq, massacre, where U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children — some of them at close range inside a small bedroom.
“I began working on this film when the massacre was a part of media diet,” Epstein says. “I thought I...
- 4/18/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Now in its seventeenth year, New York City’s own Tribeca Film Festival kicks off every spring with a wide variety of programming, from an ever-expanding Vr installation to an enviable television lineup, but the bulk of the annual festival’s programming is movies. This year’s festival offers up plenty of familiar faces with new projects alongside newcomers. While Tribeca’s documentaries tend to be its high point, there are plenty of narratives features worth checking out this year as well. We’ve culled this list from a program that consists of 96 titles.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 18 – 29. Check out some of our must-see picks below.
“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda”
One of the most influential, prolific, and flat-out enjoyable composers of the last 30 years, Ryuichi Sakamoto exploded onto the scene by writing unforgettable scores for films like “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and “The Last Emperor,...
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 18 – 29. Check out some of our must-see picks below.
“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda”
One of the most influential, prolific, and flat-out enjoyable composers of the last 30 years, Ryuichi Sakamoto exploded onto the scene by writing unforgettable scores for films like “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and “The Last Emperor,...
- 4/16/2018
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Jude Dry and Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Fifteen years after the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy put a fun twist on a makeover show, Netflix’s Queer Eye reboot has surprised viewers by tackling issues such as race, religion and gender stereotypes in one tear-jerking episode after another. Fashion expert Tan France, one of the Fab Five, opens up to In Touch about how the show is so much more than just making people look good. Born in England to Pakistani parents, the Muslim fashion designer is now based in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his Mormon husband of nearly eight years, illustrator Rob France. "Being the immigrant, I was expecting to get more abuse than anyone, but the response has been overwhelmingly positive," the 34-year-old — who was a fan of the original British version of Queer Eye — shares. "This show is so much more to me than making things pretty. It’s changing hearts and minds,...
- 4/4/2018
- by In Touch Weekly
- In Touch Weekly
In the new Netflix docu-series Girls Incarcerated: Young and Locked Up, viewers are taken inside the walls of Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility — home to 170 "students" (not inmates) as they deal with the daily struggles of being a teenager behind bars. Despite the success it had on reforming young women, the maximum security center was shut down before the show premiered on the streaming platform. According to the Madison Courier, the facility was closed last October because of the decreased number of female juvenile students while the state has seen an increase in the female adult offenders in the facility next door. "The move of students from the Madison facility could provide more space to house adult female offenders in the future if space is needed," the publication stated. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) This means that the girls were moved to Camp Summit Boot Camp in Laporte, which will move its...
- 3/9/2018
- by Anna Quintana
- In Touch Weekly
Rachel Dolezal is set to be the subject of a new Netflix documentary called The Rachel Divide — but who is she and why is she famous? Rachel, 40, hit headlines back in the summer of 2015 when she stepped down as the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement […]
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- 3/9/2018
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
You haven't heard the last of Rachel Dolezal! The 40-year-old became one of the most controversial figures in America in 2015 when it was revealed that she's not black. Why does that matter? Well, because she was an NAACP leader and had gone out of her way to make people believe that she was! Now, her son is opening up in a new Netflix documentary about his mother's lies and how it affected her family. Still not sure who she is? We have everything you need to know before watching The Rachel Divide. Rachel, who now goes by the name Nkechi Amare Diallo, was forced to resign from her position as the leader of the Spokane, Wa chapter of the NAACP after they learned that she lied about being black. She had gone to great lengths to appear African-American, from perming her hair to tanning her skin. She also lied in her biography,...
- 3/8/2018
- by Emy LaCroix
- In Touch Weekly
Rachel Dolezal’s Son Begs His Mother To Let Her Story Die In The First Clip From ‘The Rachel Divide’
In the first clip from Netflix‘s upcoming “The Rachel Divide” documentary Rachel Dolezal‘s son begs her to “just let it go away.” He’s referring, of course, to the time his mother made national news back in 2015 when it was discovered that Dolezal, the ostensibly black leader of NAACP’s Spokane, Washington branch, was in fact Caucasian. For years, Dolezal had been mischaracterizing herself as “black” so as to further her career as an NAACP activist.
- 3/8/2018
- by Eli Fine
- The Playlist
Do you remember what made Rachel Dolezal infamous? Her kid does. In a new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming documentary “The Rachel Divide,” the disgraced former branch president of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington is seen discussing the upcoming documentary with her biological son Franklin — who isn’t taking it well. “This is gonna affect more than just your life,” he says about the doc. “If somebody has hope, don’t take that away from them, because maybe that’s all they have,” Dolezal responds. “Trust me, it is going to bite me in the a–,” he fires back. Also Read: Rachel Dolezal Slammed for 'Coolest Prince...
- 3/7/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Rachel Dolezal is being slammed on social media for creating her own sweatshirt after H&M drew substantial criticism for an ad featuring a black child wearing a hoodie bearing the message, “Coolest monkey in the jungle.” Dolezal took to Instagram to debut her “final version” of the frock, which relays a more positive message: “Coolest Prince on the Planet.” Her first version of the sweater, according to journalist Yashar Ali, read, “Coolest Prince in the Hood.” “Final version. (World just sounded kind of corny, so I changed it to Planet)… Sent to printer’s. Facts: 1) Printed at local woman-of-color-owned shop. 2) Pre-order...
- 1/11/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
In the comedy world, 2017 has been a year of struggling to stay timely. When the most monumental breaking news is reduced to a tiny blip in record time, it’s difficult to make something that feels relevant without leaning on that day’s crisis. So in her debut special, “Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady,” Wolf takes a slightly different headline-free tack and ends up with an hourlong set that makes for a very funny time capsule for where we are now.
“Nice Lady” was filmed in mid-August and, as you may have heard, a lot has happened since then. But it’s even more a testament to Wolf’s approach to topics like workplace equality, birth control, and societal expectations that they feel ready-made for the full swath of what this year has offered. Wolf doesn’t have to reference the downfall of powerful men in the past few months when...
“Nice Lady” was filmed in mid-August and, as you may have heard, a lot has happened since then. But it’s even more a testament to Wolf’s approach to topics like workplace equality, birth control, and societal expectations that they feel ready-made for the full swath of what this year has offered. Wolf doesn’t have to reference the downfall of powerful men in the past few months when...
- 12/2/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Viceland gets in the scripted TV game with the world's first Edm sitcom. IFC imports a sketch show already beloved in Canada. Discovery goes on the hunt for the Unabbomber. A Stephen King detective series. A veteran documentarian takes a sympathetic look at Whitney Houston. If your TV choices in the pre-Fall trenches seem eclectic, that's because they are. Elsewhere, Tiffany Haddish gets a well-deserved time to shine and NBC goes all in on SNL's "Weekend Update." Here's what you'll be tuning into/setting the DVR for in the next month.
- 8/3/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Congratulations are in order for Rachel Dolezal. The former president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP has revealed that she welcomed a son on Tuesday. "Today, we welcomed the newest addition… Langston Attickus, born on 2/16/16, a healthy and perfect little guy with two proud big bros and a happy momma. (named after Langston Hughes & Crispus Attucks)," a statement on Dolezal's Facebook account reads. Dolezal - whose own race has been a controversial topic - notes that she's named her son after two historical African-American men; poet and social activist Langston Hughes, and Crispus Attucks, who is thought to...
- 2/19/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Rachel Dolezal copping to the obvious -- that she's white -- was great, but her estranged biological parents are still waiting for her to take responsibility for the pain she's caused her family. Larry Dolezal tells TMZ Rachel's confession on "The Real" should be her gateway to repair old wounds with her siblings. Larry wants her to take responsibility for contributing to an alleged sexual abuse case against her biological brother -- which was eventually dismissed.
- 11/4/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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