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— Note:  Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) is a grantee of OSI Baltimore. — By Lee O. Sanderlin and Jessica Anderson A Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office list of more than 300 Baltimore police officers with credibility issues, many of whom continue to be called to testify in court, has been made public for the first time after [...]

By Emily Opilo This week, Wright was one of the first applicants to Baltimore’s guaranteed income pilot program, which promises $1,000-a-month payments for two years to a group of the city’s young parents. Dubbed the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund, the program is open specifically to young parents, ages 18 to 24, who have income [...]

By Danielle Torain Fox News’ top-rated pundit Tucker Carlson yet again aimed his facile racism at Baltimore, recently, calling our city “one of the worst places in the Western Hemisphere” and “a little bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic.” As The Baltimore Sun’s editorial pointed out, it was an “especially egregious” outburst, even by the very low [...]

OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Brittany Young (2018) and Brion Gill (2015) named among Baltimore Sun’s 25 Women to Watch By Baltimore Sun Staff Meet the Baltimore area’s leading voices in business, activism, research and more. Look for the 25 Women to Watch in a special magazine supplement in some editions of The Sun on Sunday, Oct. [...]

2020 OSI Community Fellow Bree Jones featured in Baltimore Sun By Hallie Miller When Bree Jones was a financial analyst in New York City, her visits home to nearby New Rochelle, New York, distressed her. Neighborhoods were changing fast, displacing many who had lived there for decades, Jones said. Luxury apartment buildings were popping up [...]

By Stephanie García Stepping in to translate between landlords and tenants, Kendra Summers saw that her Latino neighbors needed an advocate. The teacher’s aide at Brooklyn’s Maree Garnett Farring Elementary School created Casa Amable — which translates to “Kind Home” — a program that teaches residents new to the U.S. about tenant rights and the [...]

2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson featured By Isabella Gomes On a cold March Saturday afternoon last year, three community activists showed up one by one to the empty school in Cherry Hill. They’d been called by an elder of their historically Black neighborhood in South Baltimore. For several weeks, Michael Middleton had been tracking [...]

By Emily Opilo After a failed start under a previous administration, Baltimore is again kicking off a $6 million program to distribute debit cards to city residents affected economically by COVID-19. The initiative, dubbed the COVID Emergency Assistance Program, is funded by the city and administered by the Open Society Institute-Baltimore. It is expected to [...]

By BALTIMORE SUN EDITORIAL BOARD The COVID-19 pandemic gives more reason for why the state should finally approve legislation creating overdose prevention sites, where people can use drugs in a safe setting staffed with medical professionals. Advocates of such sites, which already exist in 12 countries around the world, have tried for around half a [...]

By Stephanie García Ashley Minner included only three stops at first on the tour she created of the Lumbee Indian Community of East Baltimore: South Broadway Baptist Church, the Baltimore American Indian Center, and the Vera Shank Daycare and Native American Senior Citizens building. Then in October 2016, as she gave the tour to a group of [...]