EXCLUSIVE: VCU and predecessors yearbooks show racist imagery as late as 1989, students held “Slave Sale” fundraiser

Hannah Eason, Contributing Writer Yearbooks from the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia are littered with racist photos, some published as recently as 1989. Images include blackface, a “slave sale” at the Future Business Leaders of America Club and derogatory remarks toward Asian-Americans. RPI and MCV merged in 1968 to become VCU. […]