Noted: Before becoming an attorney and moving to the Harlem neighborhood in New York City, Adkins, 30, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It was weird having a best friend who was white and still feeling so isolated and uncomfortable by the whiteness on the campus,” he said. “I still enjoyed my time there very much, but I’m just talking about having to grapple with my double consciousness in a very real way.”