OSI-Baltimore, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore Racial Justice Action and the YWCA Greater Baltimore host a screening and discussion of a provocative documentary that shines a light on systemic racial inequity and its costs.
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Screening: Cracking the Codes sparks conversation about systemic racial inequity and its costs
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Talking About Race: New York Times Columnist Charles M. Blow to Discuss His Debut Memoir
Thursday, September 18, 2014The OSI-Baltimore Series “Talking About Race” brings one of the country’s most respected journalists to talk about current events, as well as race, class, pain and redemption.
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Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
Tuesday, September 09, 2014The OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series brings together the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary American Promise to discuss the challenges of and best practices for raising African-American boys in a society that too often discriminates against them.
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Tracy Brown Joins OSI-Baltimore as Deputy Director
Thursday, August 21, 2014Tracy Brown, a longtime Maryland attorney, advocate and leader, has been hired as Open Society Institute-Baltimore’s deputy director, a new role created to help the organization continue its progress toward finding solutions to the city’s most pressing problems.
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NASBE Names OSI-Baltimore the 2014 “Friend of Education”
Monday, July 28, 2014Open Society Institute-Baltimore and its director Diana Morris are being honored this year by the National Association of State Boards of Education with the organization’s 2014 Friend of Education Award.
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The Right to a Fair Trial: Coming Home
Wednesday, June 04, 2014Kareem Hasan and Jeffrey Kersey were released as a result of Unger v. State, a decision that found that flawed instructions to jurors created unfair trials in certain cases. Read their stories.
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Taking the Next Steps to Sustainability
Friday, May 30, 2014How do you take a good idea and make it grow to its full potential? And how, in this time of diminishing resources, can you make a grassroots project into a sustainable program?
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Scott Nolen joins OSI-Baltimore as Director of Drug Addiction Treatment
Wednesday, May 14, 2014Scott Nolen has been named Director of the Drug Addiction Treatment program at the Open Society Institute-Baltimore. Nolen is an attorney who has worked on health disparity issues at the National Institutes of Health and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
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White House expands opportunity for young men of color—we’ve already started
Thursday, February 27, 2014President Obama’s new initiative, My Brother’s Keeper, signifies an important commitment from the nation’s highest levels of government, business and philanthropic leadership to boost opportunities for young men of color. We’re so pleased to be part of the Open Society Foundations, one of the ten foundations that are involved in this initiative.
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A Call For Applicants: 2014 Baltimore Community Fellowships
Tuesday, January 07, 2014The Open Society Institute-Baltimore launched the Community Fellowships program in 1998. It is now a corps of social innovators over 140 strong…
