(Watch video here) This morning WYPR ran a great story about the changing dynamics of high school debate teams. The Eddie Conway Liberation Institute, run by the advocacy group Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (part of the Baltimore United for Change coalition, and OSI-Baltimore Justice Fund grantee) teaches students the core debate skills of in-depth, critical policy […]
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OSI Fellow receives Fulbright scholarship to study opioid addiction
Wednesday, August 03, 2016Andrew Gaddis, a medical student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and 2011 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship that he’ll use to study the effectiveness of opioid replacement therapy. Gaddis will spend his Fulbright year at Insite, a supervised injection facility (SIF) in Vancouver. “I want to become a […]
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Movement for Black Lives releases policy platform
Wednesday, August 03, 2016This week, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a coalition of organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, released “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice.” With this broader platform that includes calls for reparations, an end to the death penalty and retroactive forgiveness of student loans, the […]
