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On Friday, more than a dozen Baltimore City high school students who are part of Community Law in Action (CLIA)’s youth leadership program visited the WBAL-TV studios to learn about broadcast journalism. WBAL reporter Jayne Miller took this picture of the students listening to news anchor Jason Newton. OSI Community Fellow Terry Hickey founded CLIA, […]

On Thursday evening at West Baltimore’s Union Baptist Church, the OSI-funded Campaign for Justice, Safety, and Jobs hosted a People’s Town Hall to discuss the progress of implementing the Consent Decree and what community members would like to see in a new police commissioner, among other topics. After small-group discussions, some participants suggested that the […]

Yesterday, Catalina Rodriguez-Lima, director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs (MIMA) hosted the second quarterly meeting of partners in the Safe City Baltimore legal defense and education fund at City Hall. The Safe City Baltimore initiative, launched in April 2017, is a collaboration between MIMA and Open Society Institute to educate immigrant communities […]

This Thursday, July 12 at 6pm, the OSI-supported Campaign for Justice, Safety and Jobs will hold a People’s Town Hall at Union Baptist Church (1219 Druid Hill Ave.) to discuss updates to the Consent Decree, including the draft recommendations published by the Community Oversight Task Force, community feedback on police interactions, and the next Baltimore City police […]

2010 OSI Community Fellow Meshelle Foreman Shields will be performing a one-woman show in which she portrays five characters, written by Shields and directed by Rain Pryor, at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York on July 26. More information here. Forman Shields, who performs under the moniker “Meshelle, The Indie Mom of […]

Last Friday, members of Open Society Institute’s 2018 cohort of Community Fellows gathered at the Goodnow Community Center in East Baltimore for their monthly opportunity to share ideas, progress, and resources. The first presenter this month was Amy Tenney (pictured with Fellow Ausar Daniels), who collaborated with the Goodnow Center and other organizations to establish […]

Last week, Wide Angle Youth Media, started by 2001 Open Society Community Fellow, Gin Ferrara, teamed up with Soccer Without Borders Baltimore, founded by 2011 Fellow Jill Pardini, for this video profiling Baltimore players and how the organization helps immigrants and refugees overcome the barriers they face, both academically and socially.

In March, Open Society Institute reported that the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ruled in favor of a transgender student in a suit filed by OSI-supported FreeState Justice (formerly FreeState Legal), the ACLU, and the ACLU of Maryland. The court ruled that students’ right to use the restroom and locker rooms […]

Last week, Open Society Institute-Baltimore hosted four visitors from the Open Society European Policy Institute (OSEPI), another organization within Open Society Foundations. OSEPI, based in Brussels, works to advocate on policy issues in Europe, including human rights, equality and discrimination, and transparency and accountability. Our colleagues were particularly interested to learn more about our “inside-outside” […]