A white female professor who lied about being black
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A white female professor who lied about being black

Jessica Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, whose work primarily focuses on Africa and the African diaspora lied about being black and finally admitted that she was in fact a white Jewish woman from Kansas City. "I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken," she wrote

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