Even though no harm reduction-related bills passed during the just-completed 2016 General Assembly, it was still a good session for harm reduction advocates, says Scott Nolen, director of OSI’s drug addiction treatment program, in a City Paper op-ed. Del. Daniel Morhaim’s comprehensive package of bills designed to change the way we look at drug addiction—from […]
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Listen to OSI and Stoop Storytelling’s Stoop Mayoral Show
Thursday, April 14, 2016Last night, OSI-Baltimore and Stoop Storytelling presented the Stoop Mayoral Show, giving the city’s mayoral candidates a chance to tell stories about their first jobs. So if you ever wanted to hear Elizabeth Embry talk about being a fry cook or Catherine Pugh recall her time as a stock girl, here’s your chance… It was at […]
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Conferences Address the Need to Build Equity in our Schools
Wednesday, April 13, 2016Pictured: U.S. Department of Education General Counsel James Cole, Jr. addresses the Urban Child Symposium at the University of Baltimore School of Law. By Karen Webber There was a flurry of informative education conferences in the area this month and I was honored to be a speaker on two of the three conferences I attended […]
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OSI Fellow Brings Monument Quilt, Healing to Baltimore
Tuesday, April 12, 2016Traffic was stopped along two blocks of North Avenue Sunday afternoon to make room for the Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced display of 1,000 8′ x 8′ squares of red fabric bearing stories and messages of empowerment from rape and sexual assault survivors and their allies. The event, called “Not Alone Baltimore,” was organized by Baltimore-based activist […]
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School psychologists to hold benefit for OSI-Baltimore
Sunday, April 10, 2016The Baltimore City Association of School Psychologists will hold a benefit at Langermann’s on April 25 to support OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development (EYD) program. EYD director Karen Webber will speak at the event. The menu for the evening includes a broad range of the Canton restaurant’s Southern-inspired cuisine, including some kosher-for-Passover items, since the event […]
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OSI’s board members, grantees, fellows shine at Light City
Monday, April 04, 2016OSI-Baltimore was proud to be connected to several of the people that made the urban extravaganza of Light City, which attracted about 400,000 people last week, possible, especially OSI-Baltimore advisory board member Jamie McDonald (pictured), Light City’s volunteer chair. McDonald, who was recently named as one of Baltimore magazine’s “activists to watch,” sees the festival as an opportunity […]
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Talking About Race: What is Progress? Reflections One Year Later
Thursday, March 24, 2016BALTIMORE – Open Society Institute-Baltimore, Good News Baltimore, and the Walters Art Museum have collaborated to present an important conversation to mark the one-year anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising, called “What is Progress? Reflections One Year Later.” The event, at 7pm on April 21, is part of OSI-Baltimore’s “Talking About Race” series and the Walters’ Ted Low […]
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OSI And Stoop Storytelling Present “The Stoop Mayoral Show”
Friday, March 18, 2016LISTEN TO THE WHOLE EVENT HERE! The Open Society Institute-Baltimore and the Stoop Storytelling Series are collaborating on The Stoop Mayoral Show, at the War Memorial, April 13 at 7pm. This one-of-a-kind election year event features Baltimore’s mayoral candidates telling 5-minute true, personal tales about their first job. It’s a different way to get to […]
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WATCH: Packed house hears mayoral candidates debate criminal justice reform
Thursday, March 17, 2016Hundreds of people filled the main sanctuary at the historic Union Baptist Church in West Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood last night to hear mayoral candidates talk about their plans to reform Baltimore’s criminal justice system at the second #VoteBmore mayoral primary forum, co-hosted by OSI, Associated Black Charities, and City Paper. Watch the full forum below. Rev. […]
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School police assault sparks outrage, arrests, calls for reform
Friday, March 11, 2016The widely-circulated video of a school police officer assaulting a student at REACH Partnership School in Clifton Park last week has prompted legal action and broad discussions of the role of police in public schools. The story has been covered by national outlets including the New York Times and CNN and again focused attention on […]
