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    Calls For Resignation As Va. Governor Apologizes for Racist Image In 1984 Yearbook

    Ralph Northam, a pediatric neurologist and Democrat, was elected in 2017. The photo shows a person wearing blackface standing next to another person wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.
    by Richard Gonzales Feb 01, 2019 2 minutes
    Ralph Northam's page in the 1984 yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School in which two people are wearing blackface and a KKK costume.

    Updated Feb. 2 at 12:37 a.m. ET

    Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for appearing in a "clearly racist and offensive" costume in his 1984 medical school yearbook. The photo shows a person wearing blackface standing next to another person wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.

    Criticism from the right and left mounted Friday night, including

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