This book will make you think, it will make you grateful for the memories, it will make you cry, it will make you wonder about the life you have with the people around you, it will make you reflect on yourself. Brown highlighting the structural inequities of urban planning, using Baltimore City as a case study. Black Butterfly is a collection of poems that are about memories and experiences after losing someone in death or in life. The author is one of the few who has found true love and what it means and he wants the world to know of the beauties that come with finding the one who ignites your soul.

Now I know the conditions they are fleeing from and the battle within their hearts as they struggle to make the right choice. I also appreciate the really concrete suggestions of the author for overcoming the “segrenomics” currently affecting most of the United States’ urban areas. This book is absolutely a must read for anyone in public policy/elected office, but also incredibly thorough in understanding the segregation and continued disivestment in Black neighborhoods.So, I can honestly say this book is very accurate knowledge that I have of the situation, even though it is a novel – – historical fiction.

But there are so many similarities between the experience of Zora and what we read about Ukraine citizens in the newspaper. At the risk of sounding stupid, I had no idea that Baltimore was a prominent slave trading site and later on the site of the first bloodshed of the Civil War.it was relatively easy to read, but included a lot of information/concepts that at times could be difficult to fully remember/contextualize.

This was a challenging read (and suffered from being a book I owned and therefor was not under a library due date to finish). It makes me feel like no matter how much our technology progresses, we humans don’t progress in “humanity” – our thoughts are still all about power and control, whether over nature or over other people. Not only are the root causes and resulting policies described, but in the final chapters, Brown offers concrete solutions—based on Baltimore, but these solutions could be extrapolated to other cities. this was a great read, especially if you are interested in the history of American structural racism and displacement/segregation, and/or the city of Baltimore and racism.With her we too watch as a rich, bustling, lovely city is plunged into war—as a relatively normal life (there is unrest already when the story opens) deteriorates into a struggle for day-to-day survival—a battle not only against the war and its weapons, but also against its impacts, whether lack of basic necessities or the elements or the constant insecurity and uncertainty. In Black Butterfly he actually mentions his significant other and most of this book was more romantic whereas Spaceship had a little more heartache and struggle in it. Content Consideration: If you are negatively affected by the coverage of conditions in Ukraine, you might need to know that some content in this book is similar. Undoubtedly paints a vivid picture of a besieged Sarajevo in 1992, and deserves to be read for that reason. Sarajevo has always been multicultural—its people living and mixing harmoniously, most families mixed—most celebrating the festivals of all cultures.