Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is clinging to office amid rising calls from within his own party to resign over a photo of someone in blackface in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Photo: AP Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is clinging to office amid rising calls from within his own party to resign over a photo of someone in blackface in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Photo: AP
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is clinging to office amid rising calls from within his own party to resign over a photo of someone in blackface in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Photo: AP
World /  United States & Canada

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal lays bare America’s racism problem

  • Racist photo stirs calls on Virginia governor to resign
  • The incident is the third ‘blackface’ in recent weeks

Topic |   Racism and prejudice
Associated Press
Associated Press

Updated: 1:28pm, 4 Feb, 2019

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Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is clinging to office amid rising calls from within his own party to resign over a photo of someone in blackface in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Photo: AP Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is clinging to office amid rising calls from within his own party to resign over a photo of someone in blackface in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Photo: AP
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, is clinging to office amid rising calls from within his own party to resign over a photo of someone in blackface in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Photo: AP
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