“I am exploring a run for attorney general,” he said. Ralph Northam (D) was thrown into doubt in February 2019, as both the attorney general and governor admitted that month to wearing blackface costumes as young men in the 1980s. He earned an undergraduate degree at the College of William & Mary and his law degree from the University of Virginia. Jones recalled in his floor speech how his father faced racist taunts as a 6-year-old, as he integrated Ingleside Elementary School in Norfolk in 1960. ADIn his speech, Jones recalled that his grandfather Hilary H. Jones came home from World War II and found he had to leave Virginia again.

Source: Washington Post April 29, 2020 17:21 UTC