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Akeem Anderson is a dual degree student pursuing a JD at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minneapolis) Law School and a PhD in American Studies with the College of Liberal Arts.
His scholarship focuses on understanding the relationship between jazz, eugenics, and racial violence in the late 19th and early 20th century.
As a Black Latine of Panamanian and Guyanese descent who grew up in New York, he says moving to Minnesota was an adjustment, but he has created his community while here, and welcomed countless others along the way. Here, in his own words, Anderson recounts his journey.