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Baltimore city’s Board of Estimates agreed to pay $95,000 to Christine Abbott, who filed a lawsuit alleging that, in 2012, she was arrested in Hampden and placed in a police van without restraints and given a “rough ride,” a practice that came under scrutiny after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. A year […]

Today, The Atlantic covered outgoing Education Secretary Arnie Duncan’s proposal to reallocate funds from corrections to education—specifically in the form of raises for teachers in underprivileged schools. He specifically mentioned Baltimore. “What’s the cumulative impact of such a massive disparity of opportunity over 13 years of a child’s education?” Duncan asked. “The linkage between education, […]

Last Tuesday, OSI-Baltimore was proud to host an important conversation at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in our Talking About Race series. The topic was “Media Bias and Black Communities,” and the guests included journalist Stacey Patton and Rashad Robinson of ColorofChange.org, with moderator Joseph Torres of Free Press. It was a really great conversation. […]

On September 29, journalist and author Stacey Patton joined Rashad Robinson of ColorofChange.org and Joseph Torres of Free Press for a panel discussion at the Enoch Pratt Free Library as part of OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series, on the subject of Media Bias and Black Communities. It was a really great, pointed conversation and the […]

The guests for tonight’s Talking About Race: Media Bias and Black Communities event at the Enoch Pratt Free Library have spent the last couple of days doing some pre-talking on local radio. Journalist Stacey Patton, who has worked for the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and Chronicle of Higher Education, was the guest yesterday on WYPR’s […]

On Friday, the Baltimore Sun published a news story about the first round of grants from OSI-Baltimore’s Baltimore Justice Fund. It included an interview with OSI Fellow Lawrence Brown, whose organization, You’re the Quarterback, received a $25,000 grant. “We’re going to take those resources and use them right away,” said Brown, whose program, the story notes, has served 125 […]

OSI-Baltimore community fellow Zina Makar has been working with the Baltimore City Public Defender’s office to represent poor defendants by employing the power of habeas corpus—a legal procedure that keeps governments from holding people indefinitely without showing cause–and advocate for bail reform generally. Her work was mentioned in two City Paper stories. One piece, by the paper’s […]