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IPPY Award in Social Issues/Humanitarian

The Black Butterfly

Sponsoring Organization: Independent Publisher Book Awards 
Award Level: Silver | Award Year: 2022
Award Category: Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)
Winner(s):  The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, by Lawrence T. Brown

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Lawrence T. Brown
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Lawrence T. Brown, PhD, MPA

Lawrence T. Brown (BALTIMORE, MD) is an equity scientist, urban Afrofuturist, and the director of the Black Butterfly Academy, a racial equity education and consulting firm. In June 2018, he was honored by Open Society Institute–Baltimore with the Bold Thinker award for sparking critical discourse regarding Baltimore's racial segregation. He is currently a research scientist in the new Center for...

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