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Social Media Buzz: White Professor Reveals She Has Been Pretending To Be Black

An associate professor of history at George Washington University has admitted that she has pretended to be Black for her entire career. She is actually white.

The revelation in a post by Jessica Krug, published on the website Medium, has spurred all sorts of reactions on social media.

Here & Now’s Tonya Mosley speaks with Femi Oke, host of “The Stream” on Al Jazeera English, for our weekly social media roundup.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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