Updated Feb. 11

The scandals that have enveloped Virginia’s top three officials roiled the state capital for a second week.

There was an apology, a reversal and an admission about blackface. A sexual assault allegation was made, and an emphatic denial was made in response. Then came another admission about blackface. And another sexual assault accusation.

This month, the clouds began to gather over Gov. Ralph Northam, 59, a physician and Army veteran who was elected in 2017 and won the widest victory for a Democratic candidate for governor in the state in decades. Now, a storm of scandals has engulfed him, Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax and Attorney General Mark R. Herring, all Democrats, as well as Thomas K. Norment Jr., the Republican majority leader in the Virginia Senate.

The blackface revelations revived painful memories of Virginia’s disturbing history on race: centuries of slavery, decades of segregation and racial inequalities that still persist. The state was roiled in 2017 when a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville erupted into deadly violence. And the sexual assault allegations came on the heels of the #MeToo movement led by survivors of assault and harassment.