Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam backed out of visiting Richmond’s Virginia Union University Thursday for a planned stop for his racial reconciliation tour, per the request of the student body.

Northam, who faced a furor over a racist photo that appeared in his medical school yearbook, was due to visit the historically black school’s annual event honoring alumni known as the Richmond 34, who participated in a non-violent protest in Richmond in 1960.

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