This Saturday, April 7, 2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson will co-host a screening of “Baltimore’s Strange Fruit: A Story of Food Apartheid and the Struggle for Sovereignty” at the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church. The film, directed by Jackson and Maddie Hardy, explores the intersections of food, land, and race and class politics through personal […]
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City Schools and OSI to release Restorative Practices Report at Urban Child Symposium
Tuesday, April 03, 2018BALTIMORE—On Wednesday, Baltimore City Schools and Open Society Institute-Baltimore will officially release the comprehensive Restorative Practices Report, which outlines the necessary steps to implement restorative practices in all city schools and make Baltimore City Public Schools a Restorative District over the next five years. Read the full report; Read a one-page summary; See OSI’s Restorative Practices Web Portal; […]
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Consent Decree Monitor Team seeks community feedback on BPD policies
Tuesday, April 03, 2018The US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), and the Consent Decree Monitoring Team are currently in the process of reviewing and revising the BPD’s policies and procedures as part of the ongoing implementation of the Consent Decree and are looking for community input on how to improve and strengthen these policies. […]
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Taylor Branch brings “King in the Wilderness” to Baltimore
Monday, April 02, 2018On Thursday night, Baltimore’s Parkway Theatre hosted an advance screening of the HBO documentary “King in the Wilderness,” which tells the story of the last three years of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life, from 1965 to 1968. The film debuts on HBO tonight, April 2nd. Taylor Branch, the eminent King historian and an OSI-Baltimore […]
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Maryland’s first stabilization center to open in Baltimore next spring
Monday, April 02, 2018This week, the Baltimore City Health Department and OSI-funded Behavioral Health System Baltimore secured funding to open up Maryland’s first stabilization center, a safe space for people to go when they need to get medical treatment related to substance use disorders. According to the Baltimore Sun, the center will also offer services for long-term substance […]
