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On March 20, when UNMC medical student LaKisha Williams opened her envelope and announced she would to her medical residency in psychiatry at Louisiana State University, her mother, Cassandra Williams Smith, stood by her side. It was a sweet moment of victory that would not have been associated 26 years ago with a pregnant black teen-ager in rural Mississippi.https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/williamsLaKisha2003.jpg