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‘Baltimore Uprising: Have Things Changed or Remained the Same?’
Friday, January 01, 2021By Stacy M. Brown In 2020, community members and others reflected on the fifth anniversary of the Baltimore uprising that resulted from Freddie Gray’s death. Many have witnessed community leaders from different sectors rise to lead efforts and share their talents to promote change in their city from that uprising. As 2020 closes, the Baltimore [...] -
UMBC professor uncovers, documents history of East Baltimore’s Lumbee Indian community
Thursday, December 10, 2020By Stephanie García Ashley Minner included only three stops at first on the tour she created of the Lumbee Indian Community of East Baltimore: South Broadway Baptist Church, the Baltimore American Indian Center, and the Vera Shank Daycare and Native American Senior Citizens building. Then in October 2016, as she gave the tour to a group of [...] -
Monica Cooper: ‘We were all born to be in the service of others’
Wednesday, December 09, 2020By Special to The Daily Record Adam Bednar Maryland Justice Project founder Monica Cooper created the organization to champion solutions to issues of economic justice hindering formerly incarcerated people. She knows firsthand the struggles those individuals face in earning a living and building a prosperous future for themselves and their families once their sentence is [...] -
Opinion: It’s Time to Expand Concept, Scope of Police Reform
Thursday, December 03, 2020By Gabriela Sevilla and Christopher Dews Maryland’s legislature will convene again in January; though anything but a typical year, bills will be introduced to reform the criminal justice system. Many bills, as currently drafted, focus on the important issue of police reform – which has received much deserved attention in recent months. But a critical [...] -
Baltimore Civil Rights Organizer Betty Robinson Dies
Monday, October 12, 2020By CBS Baltimore Staff A well-known civil rights organizer from Baltimore has died. Betty Garman Robinson died over the weekend, OSI-Baltimore tweeted. She was 81 years old. According to a biography on the Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights’ website, Robinson worked in public health and occupational health. She also spent two years [...] -
Over-incarceration still happening in Maryland | READER COMMENTARY
Sunday, September 20, 2020By Andre M. Davis I was doubly discouraged by the data reported by Professors Doug Colbert and Colin Starger reflecting the unnecessary and unjust over-incarceration of non-violent pre-trial detainees in Baltimore (“Bail injustice in the time of COVID-19,” Sept. 7). Not long ago, as an advisory board member of Open Society Institute-Baltimore, I applauded OSI’s participation [...] -
Danielle Torain: ‘You’re talking about your own folks’
Tuesday, September 15, 2020By Adam Bednar Danielle Torain grew up in Baltimore, and her career included work in the mayor’s office before taking over as the executive director of the Open Society Institute Baltimore early in 2020. Having young people of color in positions leading organizations, she said, provides an important context for organizations like her own dedicated [...] -
Maryland will allow Big Tech to track if someone with the coronavirus comes near you. Should you let them?
Friday, September 04, 2020By Jean Marbella and Hallie Miller You probably want to know if you’ve come in contact with someone who has tested positive for the coronavirus. But questions like who else would know, and what they might do with that information, have made some wary of a new cellphone notification tool developed by Apple and Google [...] -
Opinion: Maryland Blocks Its Most Marginalized Citizens From Voting
Sunday, August 23, 2020By Nicole Hanson Since its emergence earlier this year, COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, and the 2020 elections are no exception. Maryland’s primary elections were postponed from April 28 to June 2 and an entire election was conducted almost solely via mail-in ballots in an effort to reduce human contact and the further spread of [...] -
A Good Place to Start — Low-Threshold Buprenorphine Initiation
Thursday, August 20, 2020By Justin Berk In Baltimore, a van was repurposed as a mobile health unit to address the city’s opioid-overdose crisis. Clinicians prescribe buprenorphine to people recently released from incarceration, setting a low threshold for treatment initiation. Read Full Article
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Open Society Institute (OSI) – Baltimore : Audacious Thinking For Lasting Change
