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Check out this interview with Van Brooks, a 2014 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow on WBAL-TV. After a football injury at 16 left him paralyzed and unable to walk, Brooks struggled to regain his independence. During the years of therapy and training he decided to share his story and help as many other kids as possible. In […]

Friday night, MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” talked about communities around the country that are stepping up to stand with their immigrant neighbors to defend against raids and deportations, including those taking the “Here to Stay” pledge. In particular, she cited “Bystander Training” held on Friday night in Baltimore, organized by OSI grantee CASA and OSI Community […]

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), including Timothy Mygatt, deputy chief of the Special Litigation Section, came to OSI-Baltimore’s office yesterday to talk to local advocates and community groups about the Consent Decree, signed by the DOJ, the City of Baltimore, and the Baltimore Police Department in January. (Read OSI-Baltimore’s statement about the Consent […]

2013 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lanaea Featherstone, whose program, “Empowering Latinos One ‘Click’ at a Time,” aims to teach Latino immigrants basic computer skills, announced the inaugural Featherstone College Scholarship created by the William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation. The foundation worked in partnership with the Consular Section of the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C to […]

On March 7, OSI-Baltimore and the Baltimore City Office of the Public Defender will present a FREE screening and discussion of Ava DuVernay’s landmark documentary “13th,” which looks at racial disparities in the criminal justice system as an ongoing form of slavery (officially outlawed by the 13th Amendment), as part of OSI’s Talking About Race […]

Listen to OSI-Baltimore’s Scott Nolen, director of our Drug Addiction Treatment Program, on the Marc Steiner show talking about Baltimore’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. The program, officially launched in a press conference last week, aims to reduce the number of people jailed due to low-level drug offenses by diverting offenders to treatment and […]

Last month the Bay Journal ran a profile on Baltimore Green Space, a project started by OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Miriam Avins. The organization is a land trust that helps preserve and support community-managed open spaces and urban woodlands. The article talks specifically about the environmental benefits of their forest patch program, but the Baltimore Green […]

Recently, 2008 OSI Community Fellow, artist Ashley Minner, participated in an innovative theater experience called “Plunge: An Experiential Storytelling Lab.” Plunge has five separate story encounters in an immersive environment and one-on-one experiences for audiences (more on the experience here). Minner worked both as a “maker” helping other storytellers to create their installations, as well […]

2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow J.C. Faulk appears in the new documentary airing on PBS, “Accidental Courtesy.” The film follows Daryl Davis, an African-American who has spent the past 25 years seeking out members of the Ku Klux Klan in an effort to gain understanding. Davis’s journey takes him to Baltimore, where he sits down with Faulk, […]