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Source: Hannah Gann / Screenshot courtesy of YouTube @6abc Philadelphia Rachel Dolezal is that you???? There are lies, and then there are lies that require you to create an entirely different identity. According to NBC News reporting, Hannah Gann, a Philadelphia teacher and activist, has admitted to spending years falsely presenting herself as Black and Palestinian while becoming deeply involved in racial justice and pro-Palestinian activism. Gann eventually confessed after […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, covering four stories: a soldier’s sacrifice, a federal spending dispute, rising trade tensions with Canada, and a young innovator whose work could help feed astronauts on Mars.

Source: Spencer Platt / Getty It’s easy to imagine that the seven members of Cornell University’s Chi Pi fraternity thought all of their troubles had faded away to obscurity after they were accused of drugging and gang-raping a female student for several hours in Oct. 2024.  Since authorities had reportedly declined to press any charges after the alleged rape was reported the following month, they likely thought they were safe, […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, covering the stories that matter most to Black communities across the country. In just two minutes, the segment touched on justice in Mississippi, a new push for voter turnout, practical advice for business owners and a proud moment in Black literary history.

Al Pereira With the rising popularity of true crime documentaries, it’s easy to forget that many of us are taking joy, or at the very least wide-eyed curiosity, in the real-life story of someone’s often-gruesome and brutal murder. The circumstances are even worse when the case goes unsolved. It’s an unfortunate situation that many are currently feeling in the wake of a grand jury recently declining to file criminal charges […]

Source: MATTHEW HATCHER / Getty Rachel Dolezal is that you???? There are lies, and then there are lies that require you to create an entirely different identity. According to NBC News reporting, Hannah Gann, a Philadelphia teacher and activist, has admitted to spending years falsely presenting herself as Black and Palestinian while becoming deeply involved in racial justice and pro-Palestinian activism. Gann eventually confessed after members of Philly Educators for […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, breaking down the stories shaping our lives right now: from the ballot box to the checkout line to the culture that raised us.

Cornell University is at the center of a developing matter involving an alleged gang rape case that took place in 2024. Prosecutors are reopening the matter after the alleged victim filed a civil lawsuit against a group of fraternity members at Cornell University. ABC News reports that prosecutors in Tompkins County in Central New York State are examining the claims made by a Jane Doe, the alleged victim of the […]

Source: Shannon Finney / Getty Dr. Lonnie Bunch, the outgoing Secretary of the Smithsonian, had a few parting words for the president and those of his ilk who think that even talking about enslavement is somehow unpatriotic. Speaking Friday at the 10th anniversary celebration of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the museum he built from scratch as its founding director, Bunch argued that slavery is “foundational” […]