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This Thursday, July 12 at 6pm, the OSI-supported Campaign for Justice, Safety and Jobs will hold a People’s Town Hall at Union Baptist Church (1219 Druid Hill Ave.) to discuss updates to the Consent Decree, including the draft recommendations published by the Community Oversight Task Force, community feedback on police interactions, and the next Baltimore City police […]

2010 OSI Community Fellow Meshelle Foreman Shields will be performing a one-woman show in which she portrays five characters, written by Shields and directed by Rain Pryor, at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York on July 26. More information here. Forman Shields, who performs under the moniker “Meshelle, The Indie Mom of […]

Last week, Wide Angle Youth Media, started by 2001 Open Society Community Fellow, Gin Ferrara, teamed up with Soccer Without Borders Baltimore, founded by 2011 Fellow Jill Pardini, for this video profiling Baltimore players and how the organization helps immigrants and refugees overcome the barriers they face, both academically and socially.

In March, Open Society Institute reported that the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ruled in favor of a transgender student in a suit filed by OSI-supported FreeState Justice (formerly FreeState Legal), the ACLU, and the ACLU of Maryland. The court ruled that students’ right to use the restroom and locker rooms […]

Recently, Scott Nolen, director of Open Society Institute’s Addiction and Health Equity program, appeared on “The Baltimore Guys” podcast to talk about the work AHE does, the importance of the language used around addiction, healthcare, and reducing stigma. Listen to the entire podcast here.

A recent episode of WYPR’s Life in the Balance featured 2017 OSI Community Fellow Alex Long’s Team Redemption Boxing Gym program. Long, a member of Safe Streets, a violence prevention program in McElderry Park, started the boxing program for youth ages 10-15 in 2015 but was able to expand and strengthen with his fellowship. The gym, he […]

On Sunday, Patrick Gaspard, the president of Open Society Foundations, appeared as a panelist on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Gaspard, who is a former senior aide to President Obama and U.S. ambassador to South Africa, along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl and others, discussed the Mueller […]

Recently, the Real News Network featured a story on Open Society Institute’s latest Talking About Race event, “Mothers of the Movement Speak.” The event, co-sponsored by the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs and Baltimore Ceasefire, included Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Marion Gray-Hopkins, mother of Gary Albert […]

This week Morgan State University Professor and 2012 OSI Community Fellow Lawrence Brown launches the Baltimore Equity Toolkit and Power Mapping website. The Powermap, an analytical tool that can be used to both understand the impact of redlining and change the trajectory of redlined communities, was originally developed by Brown in 2016-2017 with the help […]

This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow, Gianna Rodriguez was one of seven artists selected for the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance 2018 Rubys Artist Project Grants in media arts and performing arts. The cohort includes artists working with electronic music, immersive sound, dance, video art, short film, and a multimedia variety show. As part of her […]