Yesterday, James Forman, Jr. was a guest on WYPR’s On the Record with Sheilah Kast to talk about his new book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America and to promote OSI’s Talking About Race event on Monday, where he’ll talk about the book witjh University of Baltimore Law School Dean Ron Weich, U.S. Court of […]
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OSI Fellow David Miller talks youth empowerment on WEAA’s “Keep it Moving”
Friday, April 14, 2017Earlier this week, 1999 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow David C. Miller, founder of the Dare To Be King project, was interviewed on WEAA’s “Keep it Moving with Marsha Jews.” Miller was featured with Leigh R. Allen, II, Vice President, Marketing & Development of Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), Inc to talk about their “Who’s Got Your Back: […]
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OSI Fellow Terry Hickey to lead Pugh’s Office of Human Services
Tuesday, April 11, 2017Terry Hickey, a 1998 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, has been named Director of the Mayor’s Office of Human Services. Hickey was one of OSI-Baltimore’s first Community Fellows. In 1998, he used his fellowship to develop Community Law In Action (CLIA), a youth development non-profit affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore. CLIA’s trains […]
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See OSI Fellows in action tonight
Wednesday, April 05, 2017Several OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows will be involved in events around town tonight: Tonight at 5:30 pm, 2016 Fellow LaMarr Shields, who held a book signing last night, will host a community discussion and screening of the short-subject documentary “Beyond Stereotypes: Redefining Images of Young Men of Color,” which he coordinated with 2014 Community Fellow Brian […]
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Choice Program launches Starbucks Opportunity Café in East Baltimore
Wednesday, April 05, 2017The Choice Program at UMBC, an OSI-Baltimore grantee, has partnered with Starbucks on a new outlet near Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore that features an “Opportunity Café,” an in-store job training program with a classroom built right into the coffee shop. The idea is to teach people in the surrounding East Baltimore community basic life […]
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OSI’s Scott Nolen talks about harm reduction, listening to community voices at Light City
Tuesday, April 04, 2017Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program, joined Kevin Lindamood, executive director of Healthcare for the Homeless, for a presentation as part of yesterday’s Health Lab at Light City on innovative approaches to homelessness and addiction. Nolen underlined the extent of the addiction crisis by pointing out that 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses […]
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OSI-Baltimore Statement on the Request to Delay the Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing
Tuesday, April 04, 2017Statement of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Request to Delay the Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing It is irresponsible for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Trump Administration to call into question the work product of key parties to the Baltimore Consent Decree and to seek to undo a […]
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OSI Board member Joe Jones profiled in Christian Science Monitor
Friday, March 31, 2017Read the great profile in the Christian Science Monitor of OSI-Baltimore advisory board member, Joe Jones, founder and CEO of the Center for Urban Families (CFUF). In the piece, published in the Monitor’s “People Making a Difference” section, Jones talks about his struggles growing up – his absent father, his heroin addiction and multiple incarcerations […]
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The Cure for Addiction is Compassion
Thursday, March 30, 2017By Michael Camlin In a recent Baltimore Sun op-ed, Patrick Hahn asks: If addiction is a disease, why haven’t we cured it? This question is misguided. There are not yet cures for cancer. HIV. diabetes, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, or Alzheimer’s, but I think we can all agree these are diseases, and so is addiction. The study […]
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Reform coalition calls for end to racial disparities in school discipline
Wednesday, March 29, 2017In a recent op-ed in the Baltimore Sun, “MSDE school discipline proposal fails students,” the Maryland Coalition to Reform School Discipline claims that, while the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) acknowledges that African American students and those with disabilities are disproportionately suspended throughout the state, their proposed solution to the State Board of Education does nothing […]
