There must be some way to save Brian Breye's Museum in Black in Leimert Park Village ("Museum in Black Closing, Out of Funds," June 29). When I was community relations director at UCLA's International Student Center back in the '90s, I used to bring busloads of foreign students to Breye's museum as part of Discover L.A., a program that helped orient new students to the diversity in Los Angeles.
Breye would hold the crowd of Chinese, Korean, Indian, Israeli and European students enthralled as he wove stories about slavery, segregation and liberation around specific pieces of the memorabilia he had collected. He was generous with his time and knowledge, not only with those students but also with the at-risk high school students I used to bring by.
