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In 1951, a group of Black men who came to be known as the “Martinsville Seven” were tried by a white jury and sentenced to death for their supposed role in the gang rape of a 32-year-old white woman named Ruby Stroud Floyd. Seventy years later, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam…
Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves is the latest politician connected to racist yearbook photos. Reeves is the front-runner to become the Republican nominee for governor. Yearbook photos from the early 1990s, when Reeves was in the fraternity Kappa Alpha at Millsaps College, show members wearing confederate Army clothing during Old…
Despite calls for his resignation, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) remains in office, following the revelation of a photo on his medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man dressed in a KKK costume. In less than a week, another Virginia official is coming forward to…
The photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man dressed in a KKK costume is sparking a national conversation. The racist act of wearing blackface goes back to the mid-19th century. It’s 2019 and Black people still have to explain…
CNN host Don Lemon is calling the switch of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s stories something straight out of President Trump’s playbook. Lemon referred to Trump’s apology for his “grab ’em by the p***y” comments, and then his later dismissal of it as “locker room talk,” as a prime example. Northam,…
I am the same age as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. As he was selecting pictures for his medical school yearbook page, I was flying helicopters for the United States Navy. I’m not sure about blackface in Virginia in 1984. I do know I attended flight school not long after, geographically…
UPDATE: Feb. 2, 2019 at 4:29 p.m. ET Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement on Friday that he appeared in a “racist and offensive” photo, but on Saturday, Northam said it wasn’t him in the picture. “I take credit for recognizing that this was a horrific photo that…
