MARCH 8 – Virtual Community Gathering
Dr. Lawrence Brown, author of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, will speak to the Baltimore Interfaith Coalition for Dismantling Racism on Tuesday, March 8, at 1:30 PM. We will hear about the history of racism in Baltimore and the role of white congregations of faith in creating barriers to African Americans becoming full members of American society. Dr. Brown’s in-depth research and cheerful presentation style make for a memorable learning experience of critically important parts of our shared history in America.
Lawrence T. Brown is an equity scientist, urban Afrofuturist, and the director of the Black Butterfly Academy, a virtual racial equity education and consulting firm. From 2013-2019, he served as an assistant and associate professor at Morgan State University in the School of Community Health and Policy. In June 2018, he was honored by OSI Baltimore with the Bold Thinker award for sparking critical discourse regarding Baltimore’s racial segregation.
In 2020, he directed the US COVID-19 Atlas work and response for the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program in partnership with the University of Chicago Center for Spatial Data Science. His first book The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January 2021. In 2021-2022, Dr. Brown will works as a research scientist in the new Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University.
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