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Join Urban Reads Bookstore Powered by Lexington Market to kick off Black History Month with Urban Reads Bookstore 2021 Bestselling Author of the Year Dr. Lawerence Brown 

Taking place upstairs in The Baltimore Room, there will be a Black Butterfly History Exhibit on display & a presentation based on his book The Black Butterfly.

Food will be sold by Tio G's Empanada & Latin Kitchen. 

Please donate a book to someone incarcerated or donate to our prison ministry. 

Lawrence T. Brown is a writer, speaker, scholar, and urban Afrofuturist.  Dr. Brown is the author of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America.  Additionally, he is the founder and director of the Black Butterfly Academy LLC, an educational consulting firm.  Currently, he is a research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University.