On April 30th from 7-10pm, the Blank Page Project will host the opening of A WAY OUT at the Platform Gallery. A WAY OUT is a dual exhibition featuring works by Free Space and Baltimore Youth Arts. 2015 Community Fellow Dave Eassa started Free Space, which brings visual art, poetry Frand other forms of creative expression into prisons. […]
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Baltimore United For Change Releases Ad Spot
Thursday, April 28, 2016Check out this new ad spot from Baltimore United for Change (BUC), an OSI-funded coalition of organizations and activists working for social justice in Baltimore. Featured in the video are poets Dev Rock and Lady Brion (Brion Gill) from coalition member organization, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. Brion is also an OSI Community Fellow. Video […]
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We’re Hiring: Program Specialist
Thursday, April 28, 2016OSI-Baltimore, the sole field office of Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs, supports a grantmaking, educational, advocacy and capacity-building program to expand justice and opportunity for Baltimore residents. With support from a range of individual, corporate and foundation investors, its current work focuses on helping Baltimore’s youth succeed, reducing mass incarceration and its social and economic […]
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New Study Underscores Differences between Growing up Poor and Middle Class in Baltimore
Thursday, April 28, 2016Children from poor neighborhoods have a harder time transitioning to adulthood than children from wealthier ones. That’s the finding from a decade-long study published this month by a trio of sociologists from Johns Hopkins and St. Joseph’s universities. In Coming of Age in the Other America, Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin followed 150 […]
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Open Today: #ThisIsBaltimore
Wednesday, April 27, 2016Today, April 27, marks the one-year anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising. The day after, while images of police in riot gear, smoke- and teargas-filled streets, and a CVS on fire were flashing across television screens around the world, a group of students were busy capturing a Baltimore largely ignored by the media outside the city. […]
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Truancy Court Project does more than address absenteeism
Wednesday, April 27, 2016Photo: Judge Mitchell applauds senior Asia McBride for staying in school and helps her plan to dual enroll in college courses as she finishes her high school credits next year. Recently, the director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development Program, Karen E. Webber attended a meeting of the Truancy Court Project (TCP), an OSI grantee operated by […]
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OSI Justice Fund Grantee “On the Watch” Gets National Attention on All Things Considered
Wednesday, April 27, 2016OSI Justice Fund grantee “On the Watch,” is a year-long newsroom series focusing on police accountability and community police relations that airs on Baltimore National Public Radio affiliate WYPR. This weekend, NPR aired a compilation of the work WYPR’s Mary Rose Madden has been doing about police and community relations for “On the Watch” on […]
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Talking About Progress, One Year Later
Monday, April 25, 2016On Thursday night, OSI-Baltimore, Good News Baltimore, and the Walters Art Museum co-sponsored an event at the Walters to mark the one-year anniversary of the uprising and to talk about how we define progress going forward. The event, part of OSI’s Talking About Race series, featured a great panel including Joseph Jones, director of the Center for Urban […]
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Pratt Library CEO and Former OSI Board Member Carla Hayden Clears First Hurdle to Becoming Librarian of Congress
Monday, April 25, 2016Yesterday, Dr. Carla D. Hayden, CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and former OSI-Baltimore advisory board member, cleared her first Senate confirmation hearing as President Obama’s nominee to librarian of Congress. If confirmed, Hayden will be the first African American as well as the first woman to head the Library of Congress. Sens. Barbara […]
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General Assembly Takes Big Steps to Reform Maryland’s Criminal Justice System
Wednesday, April 20, 2016Last week, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation that, if fully implemented, will begin to bring an end to years of mass incarceration in Maryland by prioritizing drug treatment over prison, improving parole practices to better support release and reintegration, and doing away with racially unjust mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses. The Justice […]
