Eastern Virginia Medical School apologized Tuesday for its old racist yearbook photos amid the scandal over whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in one of them showing a white man in blackface next to another in Ku Klux Klan attire. The Democratic Virginia governor, clinging to office despite widespread calls for resignation, now claims he is not in the 1984 picture from his alma mater yearbook, though he admitted wearing blackface during a separate instance that year. The school president, Richard Homan, held a press conference to address the scandal and the history of racism at the institution. “The emotional wounds they endure are enormous.”

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2019 12:45 UTC