RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's governor is calling on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign because of a photograph on Northam's yearbook profile page.
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In an emailed statement, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the photograph is both reprehensible and deeply disappointing. He said the photo comes "with pain beyond what many of us can even understand."
Cooper called Northam's resignation "the only way forward."
A photo from a 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced Friday, showing a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. The photo was on Northam's profile page.
Northam was scheduled to speak publicly Saturday afternoon.
(The Associated press contributed to this report)
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