Because it's time for a glimmer of light, here is a dazzling group of black students from Tulane University School of Medicine in front of former slave quarters at Louisiana's Whitney Plantation museum - proof of improbable distances traveled and what Russell Ledet calls a heart-lifting "collective vision for the future." ...
"As physicians in training, we stood on the steps of what was once slave quarters for our ancestors," noted Sydney Labat, a classmate who grew up in rural Mississippi, likewise rarely saw black people in positions of authority, and posed looking unapologetically determined to "embody the strength of the people who lived on those grounds." Her message: "For our entire community, keep striving. Resilience is in our DNA."