Isaac Bryan

Director, Public policy for African American studies, UCLA. Director, Black Policy Project

Director of public policy at the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and founding executive director of the center's Black Policy Project 

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“I don’t think [King’s dream] is realized. I think we get symbolic gestures of realization. But at the substance and at the root, we’re not seeing the change and the dream that Dr.

In 2021, local Black analysts say Martin Luther King’s dream hasn’t been realized

“I don’t think [King’s dream] is realized. I think we get symbolic gestures of realization. But at the substance and at the root, we’re not seeing the change and the dream that Dr.

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After a summer of mass protests over police brutality, Angelenos and Californians voted this year in favor of criminal justice reform.

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