Briana Harris, a junior at historically-black Virginia State University, got an unusual campus job this past semester: for six hours a week, at $25 dollars an hour, Harris combed through Virginia school yearbooks looking for images of white people doing anything culturally insensitive.
From February until June, Harris joined a small team of scholars who worked with local community organizer Chelsea Higgs Wise on a yearbook project inspired by Democratic Governor Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal. In February, everyone saw Governor Northam’s medical school year page prominently featuring one man in blackface and another in a KKK robe.
