Black Med Students At Former Slave Quarters Say 'This Is About Resiliency'
Tulane University medical students visited a plantation museum last week to take a photo that's going viral. "We were embodying the strength of the people who lived on those grounds," a student says.
"I don't think as a kid I ever saw a minority physician," says Russell J. Ledet.
Ledet is a second-year medical student in the M.D./MBA program at Tulane University School of Medicine, and African American. Last weekend he organized a trip to Whitney Plantation, now a museum, in Edgard, La., for fellow members of the Tulane chapter of the Student National Medical Association, a student-run organization that supports black medical students.
A tweeted of 15 African
