BKIOS. Lawrence T. Brown.

04/10/18 • 25 min

Black Kids in Outer Space interviews Lawrence T. Brown. Brown is the grandson of Mississippi Delta sharecroppers and preachers. He is a native of West Memphis, Arkansas and moved to Baltimore in the fall of 2010. His current research addresses the impact of historical trauma on community health. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled The Black Butterfly: Why We Must Make Black Neighborhoods Matter to be published in late 2018 or early 2019. He is a racial equity consultant, an organizer with the radical collective Baltimore Bloc, a co-founded of the lead poisoning awareness initiative #BmoreLEADfree, and an associate professor at Morgan State University in the School of Community Health and Policy.

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