'It is definitely not me': Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refuses to resign and denies he appeared in racist photo despite later blackface incident

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• Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has said he did not appear in the racist photo he earlier apologized for.
• Northam said he was not stepping down even after several Democrats and Republicans urged him to.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said on Saturday that he did not appear in a racist photo that prompted widespread calls for his resignation. 

The photo, from an Eastern Virginia Medical School's 1984 yearbook page, shows one person in blackface standing next to another person in a Ku Klux Klan-style robe and hood. The photo, first published by conservative blog Big League Politics on Friday, went viral and prompted numerous calls for Northam's resignation from Republicans and Democrats.

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