An article recently published on nbcnews.com highlights the inspiring photo and actions of 15 black medical students from Tulane University, who posed in front of a former slave quarters at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. Sydney Labat, one of the participating students, posted the photo on Twitter with the caption: "Standing in front of the slave quarters of our ancestors, at The Whitney Plantation, with my medical school classmates. We are truly our ancestors' wildest dreams."
Russell Ledet, a classmate of Labat, hopes that the photo will serve as an inspiration to young black students who rarely see images of black doctors, and "feel a lack of representation in and out of the classroom."
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