Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader who was unmasked as a white woman in 2015, says she intends to return to activism.

Dolezal, 39, was photographed on her way to the Today show Monday morning, where she promised that despite being born to white parents, she wasn't going to quit black causes.

'I definitely feel like in America... there still is a line drawn in the sand, there still are sides. Politically, here is a black side and a white side.

'And I stand unapologetically on the black side.'

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Going for a stroll: Rachel Dolezal, who was ousted as an NAACP chapter head after it emerged she was actually white, was seen on her way to the NBC studios on Monday morning

Making a statement: She was seen with son Langston Attickus before her appearance on the Today show, where she announced she would return to black activism

Black mark: Dolezal said strongly negative press reaction to her unveiling as a white woman had made it hard to get a job, but that she still identifies as black

Dolezal was the chapter president of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington, until 2015, when her parents announced to the media that they - and she - are white.

She was spotted on the street outside the NBC studios in Manhattan pushing her son, Langston Attickus Dolezal, in a stroller on her way to promote her new book, 'Now In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.'

On the Today show, Dolezal said she isn't backing down from her claim that she is a black person, regardless of her race.

'I don't identify as African-American, I identify as black,' she said, 'so I'm part of the pan-African diaspora.'

'I stand with my own sense of the self and my internal values,' she continued. 'And I also stand with the greater cause of challenging the myth of white supremacy.'

When asked if she could do all of that without claiming to be black, she was adamant about her position.

Back in black: Dolezal (left in 2015, right as a child) says 'black... represents the essence of who I am.' She said she was 'unapologetic' and wants to 'fight the myth of white supremacy'

'I really prefer to just be exactly who I am, and black is really the closest race and cultural category, descriptive term that represents the essential essence of who I am.'

And, she says, she is 'is still committed to racial and social justice work and education'.

But the controversy surrounding her race claims has made it difficult for her to apply for jobs, she says, so she has changed her name.

As DailyMail.com revealed at the start of this month, she now goes by the name Nkechi Amare Diallo, which means 'gift of god' in a West African language.

'I really want to advance the conversation about race and identity,' she said, adding that she is 'finding her way back to the activism work I'm so passionate about.'

Dolezal had Langston in June last year, and named him after two African-American historical figures: poet Langston Hughes and Crispus Attucks, considered the first casualty of the American Revolutionary War.