About the Author
bryonn bain is Brooklyn’s own prison activist, actor, hip hop theater innovator and spoken word poetry champion. Wrongfully imprisoned in his second year at Harvard Law School, bryonn told his story for 20 million viewers on “60 Minutes” in an interview with Mike Wallace. After writing The Village Voice cover story “Walking While Black: The Bill of Rights for Black America,” his work received the largest response in the history of the nation’s most widely read progressive newspaper. bain’s work has been featured throughout the United States, and internationally in Uganda, Singapore, Belgium, and Mexico. bryonn is the co-director of the Center for Justice at UCLA and founder of the UCLA Prison Education Program, where he has developed and taught courses and programs in LA prisons.
