'I’m happy that it's happening, but I’m happy that it won’t be so unique in the coming years.”
Malcolm Jones wishes his graduation wasn’t so historic, and that there were other Black PhDs to come out of USC's bio-kinesiology program, but he says it is progress.
"I’m happy that it's happening, but I’m happy that it won’t be so unique in the coming years," he said. But his story is unique. Jones is a child of immigrants from Liberia, who grew up in Atlanta, and had to come to Los Angeles for a kidney transplant because of an auto-immune disease called lupus nephritis. In patients with lupus, the body's own immune system attacks cells and organs. Kidney damage is one of the more common health problems associated with lupus, according to the Mayo Clinic.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
After spending much of his young life in the hospital, Jones says he wanted to help people avoid hospitals.His specialty now is research into exercise and other ways we can protect our bodies against disease and injury. He was the first in his family to graduate from college as well as the first Black student to earn a master's in his program.
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