(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 […]
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OSI Fellows weigh in on police, community, and philanthropy
Friday, July 22, 20162012 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lawrence Brown, left. In an interview on Washington D.C. NPR affiliate WAMU last week, just weeks after the most recent shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge. 1999 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow David Miller reflected on the relationship between police and young African American men. Miller’s project, Dare to Be King, supports organizations that provide services to boys of color, […]
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OSI-Baltimore Announces Solutions Summit, December 10
Friday, July 22, 2016Media Advisory Contact Evan Serpick 410-234-1091 BALTIMORE – Just over a month after Election Day, OSI-Baltimore will convene Baltimore residents for a free full-day public event, called Solutions Summit, to create a consensus blueprint for the new mayor and city council. In the lead-up to the event, there will be three public half-day forums that will […]
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OSI Celebrates opening of grantee Positive Schools Center
Wednesday, July 20, 2016(photo courtesy of the University of Maryland) On July 18, Karen Webber, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development (EYD) program helped celebrate the launch of the Positive Schools Center (PSC) of the University of Maryland School of Social Work, an initiative funded by a multi-year grant from OSI. The Center, developed by former OSI-Baltimore EYD Director Jane […]
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Changes in Medicaid treatment options puts patients in danger
Monday, July 18, 2016This weekend, Baltimore Sun highlighted on its front page the potential problems in recent changes to the Maryland Medicaid Pharmacy Preferred Drug List (PDL), issues that Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program and others raised in a June 23rd op-ed in the Sun. On July 1, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) removed Suboxone […]
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Opening reception for #unconvicted draws crowd, starts conversations
Thursday, July 14, 2016OSI-Baltimore director Diana Morris. Photo courtesy of the Pretrial Justice Institute. Last night, despite soaring temperatures, a crowed packed The Living Well for the opening reception of #unconvicted, a photo exhibit documenting the plight of pretrial detainees. Many detainees spend weeks or month behind bars without being convicted of any crime because of the cash […]
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Enoch Pratt CEO Carla Hayden confirmed as first female, first African American librarian of Congress
Thursday, July 14, 2016OSI congratulates Dr. Carla D. Hayden on her historic confirmation as librarian of Congress. Hayden, who is the CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and a former OSI-Baltimore advisory board member, is the first African American as well as the first woman to head the Library of Congress. After Dr. Hayden’s tenure on the […]
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OSI Community Fellow tells Baltimore history with stories
Thursday, July 07, 2016A few days ago, the Baltimore Sun profiled visual artist and 2008 OSI Community Fellow Ashley Minner and her newest project, Elders of Baltimore. The project, co-created with fellow artist Sean Scheidt, is an Instagram account similar to the popular Humans of New York and Close Up Baltimore accounts (the latter started by current OSI Community Fellow […]
