Give Credit Where Credit’s Due

Reporters Jeff Selle and Maureen Dolan of the Coeur d’Alene Press received due credit in People magazine for breaking the Rachel Dolezal story. After revealing that the local NAACP leader was white, not black, Jeff and Maureen were pushed aside as the story went viral. But People set the record straight June 20. Selle told the mag that he had always been skeptical of Dolezal’s unsubstantiated claims of harassment during her tenure with Coeur d’Alene’s Human Rights Education Institute. That skepticism boiled over, reports People, when Dolezal “reported finding a package filled with racial threats against her and addressed to her in the post office box of the Spokane, Washington, NAACP.” Selle told People: “There hadn’t been a string of hate crimes (in Coeur d’Alene) until she shows up. And now with them allegedly happening in Spokane, I said, ‘This looks fishy.’ ” Jeff and Maureen will be remembered again next year when 2015 journalism awards are handed out/ DFO , SR Huckleberries. More here.