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Students at Three Richmond Colleges Confront Virginia’s Racist Past

This month a blackface photo from the college yearbook of the governor of Virginia reignited conversations about race on campuses across the commonwealth and beyond. Gov. Ralph S. Northam, a Democrat who has said he is not in the yearbook photo and has refused to step down, initially planned a “reconciliation tour” to several institutions on Thursday. At one of them, the historically black Virginia Union University, President Jamon Phenix of the Student Government Association on Wednesday asked the governor to delay his visit, fearing that it would distract from a campus event honoring a historic civil-rights protest. Northam subsequently canceled his plan to visit the university. The Chronicle visited three colleges in Richmond, including Virginia Union, to find out how students are dealing with the legacy of slavery and the Civil War in a city where statues of Confederate generals stand as daily reminders.