“A Virginia Military Institute yearbook overseen by future state Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment (R) in 1968 features a host of racist photos and slurs, including blackface,” the Virginian Pilot reports.
“The revelation about one of Virginia’s most powerful Republicans comes as the state’s Democratic governor and attorney general are facing calls to resign over their own admissions they wore blackface as young men.”
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