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Last week, MSNBC interviewed 2015 OSI Community Fellow Brion Gill for a feature about the Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District located in the Penn North, Druid Heights, Upton, and Sandtown-Winchester communities. Gill, who is a poet and teacher, is the founder and Executive Director and spoke to MSNBC about the importance of revitalizing the […]

Last week, Senator Jill Carter, City Councilman Zeke Cohen and other public officials held a press conference outside City Hall to celebrate unanimous passage of the Healing Maryland’s Trauma Act in the state legislature last month. The legislation, introduced by Senator Carter and Delegate Robbyn Lewis, expands the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act, and will […]

Last week, Baltimore 360 (B-360), founded by 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Brittany Young, announced a partnership with the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office on a program to divert people away from the criminal justice system for dirt bike charges, traffic violations and other nonviolent offenses. As part of the initiative, the State’s Attorney’s Office will […]

Last week, the Daily Record announced its 2021 Leadership in Law awardees. Among the honorees are 2018 OSI Community Fellow, Aarti Sidhu, and Andre Davis, retired U.S. Circuit Judge and OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member. Sidhu, who is currently a Staff Attorney with the Education Unit at Disability Rights Maryland working specifically on education issues faced […]

On Sunday, May 9, the Queer Crisis Response Unit (QCRU), founded by 2020 OSI Community Fellow E.V. Yost, will hold its first community roundtable to discuss developing a trans-led, community care network response alternative to 9-1-1 in Baltimore City to support TLGBQIA+ who are experiencing crises. Learn more here. Additionally, QCRU is accepting applications until […]

Earlier this week, 2018 OSI Community Fellow, Brittany Young, appeared on the Kelly Clarkson show to talk about her organization, B360, which uses dirt bike culture to teach STEM skills as well as dirt bike riding safety for young people in Baltimore. The organization trains former street riders over the age of 16, trains them […]

This week, 2019 OSI Baltimore Community Fellow, Ana Temple Rodney and her organization, MOMCares, are featured in a campaign highlighting the Black maternal health crisis that can be seen on the Baltimore LED Art Board (both Rodney and her son make an appearance!). Rodney established MOMCares to provide post-partum doula care for under-supported mothers with […]

This week, 2019 OSI Community Fellow Marvin Hayes was featured in the Guardian’s special reporting series, “America’s dirty divide” (supported by Open Society Foundations), a series that examines the country’s environmental inequalities, along with other environmental justice advocates who are working to shut down the Bresco waste incinerator in South Baltimore. In the video, Hayes, […]

Last week, WJZ featured 2019 Community Fellow Marvin Hayes and his organization, the Baltimore Compost Collective. Located in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay area of South Baltimore, the Baltimore Compost Collective aims to serve a community that otherwise may not be able to get fresh vegetables. Hayes and his crew of volunteers pick up food waste from […]

This week, BBC’s “Project 17” series featured Monet Wimbish, a student with Writers in Baltimore Schools, an organization started by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton.  The series consists of interviews with 17 17-year olds from 17 countries talking about what they want from the 17 goals of the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable […]