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HANDOUT - Ralph Northams page in the 1984 yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School in which he appears in blackface with a friend in a KKK costume. (Obtained by The Washington Post via Getty Images)

By David Kurtz

February 2, 2019 3:07 p.m.

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In a press conference still underway. Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam insisted that he wasn’t in the racist photo on his med school yearbook page – then disclosed that he had “darkened my face” on another occasion around the same time, to dress up as Michael Jackson in a dance contest.

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