Jessica Krug’s Identity. What really happened? Summary Last night, Jessica Krug posted a tell-all blog post in which she admitted that she was not Afro-Latina, despite having claimed the identity for nearly two decades. In the essay, she admits that she is a White Jewish woman from Kansas City, not a black or Caribbean woman from the Bronx (which she frequently calls “el barrio“) as she has claimed for years. Jessica Krug is a Professor of African American History at George Washington …