https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47162714
Virginia Republicans claimed the moral high ground this week as a blackface scandal left the state's Democratic leadership on the brink of implosion.
But now a racist yearbook has come back to haunt a top Republican.
It has emerged that Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment edited a 1968 college publication chock-full of slurs and blackface photos.
The bombshell comes after Virginia's Republican party said top Democrats had lost the authority to govern.
The uproar has shaken the state capitol in Richmond, which still grapples with its painful past as the capital of the pro-slavery Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Mr Norment, 72, was the managing editor of the Bomb, Virginia Military Institute's yearbook.
The Republican Senate leader denies he is among those pictured in blackface in the publication.
But the yearbook was strewn with slurs against black and Asian students, according to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, which broke the story.
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