Ralph Northam ignored growing calls to step down Friday night after a racist photo showing him in either blackface or Ku Klux Klan attire surfaced hours earlier.

Northam said he was “deeply sorry” for the photo showing two men in racist costumes that appeared on a 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page. He did not identify which person he was in the photo.

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