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-This piece features OSI Fellow Shelley Halstead- By Maya Lora and Lia Russell As Shelley Halstead gazes upon the vacant, disheveled building that once hosted a stop in the “Green Book,” all she sees is potential. “They just want to keep scraping houses and buildings. And I just, I’m a carpenter. Like first and foremost, I’m like, ‘No, [...]

-OSI grantees Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition and Maryland Peer Advisory Council were among the groups leading this event.- By Cassidy Jensen Joined by harm-reduction advocates, local musicians performed outside a Baltimore drug manufacturing facility Wednesday afternoon to protest the price of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan sold by pharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions. Demonstrators parked a flatbed [...]

-Life After Release is an OSI grantee.- By Shannon Clark LARGO — Thousands of Maryland residents will not cast a ballot in this year’s election because they are behind bars. They have not had their voting rights taken from them. In fact, they have not been convicted of a crime. But because they are in [...]

-Janet Felsten is a 1998 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow.- By Jacques Kelly. Over this past summer I learned about something that surrounded me throughout my years in Baltimore: the Jones Falls Trail. It all began when Janet Felsten handed me a foldout map one Saturday at the Waverly Farmers Market off Greenmount Avenue. She told me [...]

-City Councilman Zeke Cohen, leaders of the Baltimore Teachers Union, and several city schools students held a rally outside City Hall calling on district leadership to implement the OSI-initiated and -supported restorative practices program in all Baltimore City schools.- By Lea Skene Days after a student was gunned down outside his northeast Baltimore high school [...]

-OSI-Baltimore is a longtime member and supporter of the BRIDGES Coalition- By Meredith Cohn With drug overdose deaths continuing to rise, a league of advocates and providers have been pushing for safe, supervised places for people to use the drugs out of the public’s way. The places, called overdose prevention sites, provide clean needles and [...]

By Meredith Cohn The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade precedent has prompted donations large and small to aid those in Maryland and from out of state seeking abortions... Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott pledged $300,000 to help that cause immediately after the ruling was issued last week, with the money going [...]

— 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 [...]