What month did the 2015 controversy surrounding Joshua Andrew Dolezal's sister came to media attention?
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Joshua Dolezal Joshua Andrew Dolezal (also spelled Doležal ; born September 1975) is an American academic and writer. He is a full Professor of English studies at Central College (Iowa), focusing on American literature, creative nonfiction, medical humanities and sustainability issues. He is also the author of a memoir, "Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging", which details his upbringing in "a strict, cult-like Christian family" and which received widespread attention in connection with the 2015 controversy surrounding his sister, Rachel Dolezal. The book was described by Kim Barnes as an "intimate and lyrical story of fallen faith, found love, and the way we must sometimes circle back to find what we have lost." Dolezal is also the author of a number of essays, poems and academic papers.
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Rachel Dolezal In June 2015, Dolezal came to media attention when her European American parents stated publicly that Dolezal was a white woman passing as black. Their statement followed Dolezal's reports to police and local news media that she had been the victim of nine hate crimes; however a subsequent police investigation did not support Dolezal's allegations. Dolezal's critics contend that she has committed cultural appropriation and fraud; Dolezal and her defenders contend her racial identity is genuine while not based on biology or ancestry. In a November 2015 television interview, Dolezal publicly stated for the first time since the controversy began that she was born white but still identified as black.
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Hypatia transracialism controversy The feminist philosophy journal became involved in a dispute in April 2017 that led to the online shaming of one of its authors, Rebecca Tuvel, an untenured assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis. The journal had published a peer-reviewed article by Tuvel in which she compared the situation of Caitlyn Jenner, a trans woman, to that of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who identifies as black. When the article was criticized on social media as a source of "epistemic violence", scholars associated with "Hypatia" joined in the criticism and urged the journal to retract it. The controversy exposed a rift within the journal's editorial team, and more broadly within feminism and academic philosophy.
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Aaryn Gries Aaryn Elizabeth Gries Williams (née Gries; born September 3, 1990) is an American reality television personality and former model from San Marcos, Texas. She is best known for her appearance as a contestant on the reality television show "Big Brother 15", during which she became the subject of controversy due to racist, homophobic, and bigoted comments she made while competing on the program. She is currently a ranch owner and operator, and a YouTube vlogger.
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Justina Morales Justina Morales (February 19, 1987 – December 31, 1995) was an American girl from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, who was killed at the age of eight years by her mother's boyfriend, Luis Santiago, on New Year's Eve in 1995. Her body was never found. The killing gained notoriety primarily through the New York City newspapers.
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Marharyta Dorozhon Marharyta Serhiïvna Dorozhon (, Hebrew: מרגריטה סרגייבנה דורוז'ון‎ ‎ ; born 4 September 1987) is an Israeli javelin thrower. Born and raised in Ukraine, she competed for that country until she became an Israeli citizen in 2014.
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2015 in Jordan The following lists events that happened during 2015 in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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Adeola Fayehun Adeola "Eunice" Oladele Fayehun (born July 6, 1984) is a Nigerian journalist who specializes in discussing current geopolitical, social and economic issues that affect the daily lives of Africans living on the continent. She is well known for a controversial 2015 on-street interview where she and fellow Sahara TV journalist Omoyele Sowore asked Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe about when he would be stepping down from office. In 2013, she interviewed former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the streets of New York, asking him what he was doing about the then on-going Boko Haram insurgency. Fayehun works from New York City for Sahara Reporters for whom she writes about African politics. She regularly hosts a satirical news show on YouTube called "Keeping It Real with Adeola" which is produced and published on the YouTube channel for SaharaTV.
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2015 in Israel Events in the year 2015 in Israel.
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Hannah Elizabeth (musician) Hannah Elizabeth "(born September 25, 1992)" is an American singer-songwriter, who became known in the music industry after her music video created interest online in October 2015. Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, West Bloomfield, Michigan, she became interested in music, singing and performing at a young age. After her first major release "Wild We'll Run", which was commercially released in May 2015, Elizabeth became an online music trend with her music video "No Good", released in October 2015.
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Mary McNamara Mary McNamara (born 1963) is an American journalist and television critic for the "Los Angeles Times". She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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Murder of Phylicia Barnes The murder of Phylicia Barnes is believed to have occurred in Baltimore, Maryland, US, on December 28, 2010, in relation to a crime. Her body was recovered in the Susquehanna River on April 20, 2011, following a series of searches and national media coverage from various outlets, including the Today Show. The investigation into her death, was ruled a homicide. About a year later, on April 25, 2012, her sister's ex-boyfriend, Michael Johnson, was arrested and charged with her murder. At the time, police declined to provide any details as to how the murder occurred, how they identified him as a suspect, or a motive in the case. Johnson was convicted on February 6, 2013, of second-degree murder. All charges against Johnson were dropped on January 20, 2015.
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Alicia Ashley Alicia Ashley (born August 23, 1967) is a women's boxing participant who is the former WBC female world super bantamweight champion. Ashley is a Jamaican-American. Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States at a young age. She is the younger sister of chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley and former world kickboxing champion Devon Ashley.
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The Bouvier Affair The Bouvier Affair is the name that art commentators have given to a court battle that started in 2015.
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Rosalyn Baxandall Rosalyn Fraad "Ros" Baxandall, (June 12, 1939 – October 13, 2015), was an American historian of women's activism and an active New York City feminist.
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Mother Funders Mother Funders is an American reality documentary television series that premiered on June 14, 2015, on Bravo. The show follows the members of Parent Teacher Organization in the small town of Locust Grove, Georgia as they try to benefit their children's local elementary school by raising and donating money. Bravo aired a 30-minute preview special of the show on May 10, 2015.
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Jahi McMath case The Jahi McMath case involves a teenage girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013, when she was 13. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures. Her parents considered these measures to constitute life support, while her doctors considered this to be futile treatment of a deceased person. In October 2014, the McMath family attorney presented new evidence and made the unprecedented request that Jahi McMath's brain death declaration be overturned. The attorney later withdrew this request, saying he wanted time for the court-appointed medical expert and his own medical experts to confer. In March 2015, McMath's family filed a malpractice lawsuit against Children's Hospital Oakland and against the surgeon who performed McMath's surgery, indicating they were prepared to argue as part of the lawsuit that McMath is not dead.
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DaddyOFive DaddyOFive is a YouTube channel and online alias of Michael Christopher "Mike" Martin, which focused on daily vlogging and prank videos. The channel's videos featured Martin, his wife Heather Martin—also known by her online alias MommyOFive—and their children. In 2017, following claims that the parents were abusing their children in the prank videos, the channel became the center of a controversy, as many saw their content as extreme in nature. Created in 2015, the channel achieved success earning up to 176 million video views and around 750,000 subscribers. However, after the aforementioned controversy, all videos on the channel were removed, and the Martins stopped producing videos on the channel, aside from a formal public apology video. In September 2017 Mike and Heather Martin took an Alford plea in regards to two counts per person of Maryland state child neglect charges and received supervised probation for five years.
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Anna Ali Sister Anna Hadija Ali (29 December 1966 – 6 June 2012) was a Kenyan Religious Sister of the Pious Union of the Daughters of Jesus the Good Shepherd. She is known for her claims of direct contact with Jesus Christ through personal visits between 1987 and 1991.
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Lois Lerner Lois Gail Lerner (born October 12, 1950) is an American attorney and former United States federal civil service employee. Lerner became director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2005, and subsequently became the central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting controversy in the targeting of conservative groups, either denying them tax-exempt status outright or delaying that status until they could no longer take effective part in the 2012 election. Lerner resigned over the controversy. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation, completed in 2015, found "substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia" but "found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution."
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May Golan May Golan (Hebrew: מאי גולן‎ ‎ ; born in 1986) is an Israeli conservative political activist, television commentator and Knesset candidate from Tel Aviv. She is the CEO of the Hebrew City an NGO and a campaigner against illegal immigration.
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Addicted to Fresno Addicted to Fresno (original title "Fresno") is a 2015 dark comedy that was directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Karey Dornetto. The film had its world premiere March 14, 2015 at South by Southwest and stars Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer as two sisters that find themselves in trouble after Greer accidentally kills someone. The film was released in the United States on September 1, 2015 through video on demand, and was released in a limited release on October 2, 2015, by Gravitas Ventures.