Why there is so much media coverage of Ralph Northam’s racist photo

By East Virginia Medical School — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/ralph-northam-yearbook-blackface.html, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59837952

Man bites dog

Reaction to the unearthing of a thirty-year old medical school yearbook photo in which Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor of Virginia, posed either in blackface or in a Ku Klux Klan robe.

Northam, after initially admitting that he was one of the models, has now chosen to deny his earlier position…