Lawrence Brown
After the tragic death of Freddie Gray in 2015, Dr. Lawrence Brown fired off a bunch of tweets; as @bmoredoc, he connects with over 15,000 Twitter followers. He could clearly see what the issue was and he had to research to prove it. It was not long after that that the Acquisitions Editor for Johns Hopkins University Press reached out to him; Brown was onto something.
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America is a complex book that will both intrigue and shock you. You will find yourself both grateful for his research and frustrated that it hasn’t yet reached the right hands. It’s not every day that a blueprint is created to directly address the issues of an urban city. This book is not only an eye-opener, but also a call to action, and a reminder of the work that needs to be done to heal a city with many open wounds.
Brown, an Arkansas native, landed in Baltimore back in 2010 to complete his post-doctoral fellowship at Morgan State University. In 2020, he became the Director of Law County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program in the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. And just recently he returned to Morgan to get Center for Urban Health Equity up and running.
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