Now watching Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader who resigned as president of the organization's Spokane, Wash., chapter after being accused of lying about her race, says she identifies as African-American. "I identify as black," Dolezal said in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer on the "Today" show Tuesday.

Washington state civil rights advocate Rachel Dolezal, who has been accused of falsely claiming she is African-American, said on Tuesday she identifies as black and has been doing so since she was 5 years of age.

Can data visualization be used in the classroom? I recently stumbled on some research suggesting that presenting information visually may have significant benefits over text-based materials. The BBC reports that interpreting visual data requires fewer cognitive resources than reading texts. The results showed that when tasks were presented visually rather than using traditional text-based software [...]

NEW YORK (AP) - The NAACP chapter president who resigned after her parents said she is white said Tuesday that she started identifying as black around age 5, when she drew self-portraits with a brown crayon, and she "takes exception" to the contention she tried to deceive people.