Black medical students pose in front of Louisiana plantation's slave quarters for inspiring picture

Students from the Tulane University School of Medicine made headlines around the world. It's because the next generation of pediatricians, surgeons, and psychiatrists is looking back at the ancestors who laid their foundation.



"When I was presenting this to some of my classmates, I told them. I was like 'yo, this is going to be iconic. This will be iconic'," said Russell Ledet, Ph.D.



Dr. Ledet is a second-year student at the Tulane University School of Medicine.

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