The Wall Street Journal’s recent article, Prison vs. Harvard in an Unlikely Debate, covers the work of the Bard Prison Initiative and their inmate debate team. Leading up to a match with Harvard’s debate team, Bard team member Alex Hall said “If we win, it’s going to make a lot of people question what goes […]
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Return criminal justice to the community
Friday, September 25, 2015Al Jazeera America recently ran an op-ed by Laura I. Appleman, associate dean of faculty research and a professor of law at Willamette University. In the op-ed, Appleman writes about the harm done when the voice of the community is removed from the criminal justice system. This exclusion of the public, she says, “is draining […]
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Audacious Thinking: Summer 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015In this issue, Tara Huffman writes about reimagining jail in Baltimore city and Diana Morris writes about OSI-Baltimore’s renewed commitment to improving justice and equality after the death of Freddie Gray.
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2014 Grants and Donors
Tuesday, May 19, 2015We can see it. We have a vision of Baltimore where every child can be healthy and prosperous. We see a city where no one lives in poverty or is held back because of racial discrimination. We see Baltimore as a beautiful city where opportunity is abundant and we can all thrive. We can make […]
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A Call For Applicants: 2016 Baltimore Community Fellowships
Monday, January 05, 2015The Baltimore Community Fellowships Program was established to assist individuals wishing to apply their education, life experiences and professional experiences to serve marginalized communities.
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OSI-Baltimore Selects 11 New Community Fellows
Tuesday, November 11, 2014OSI-Baltimore awards $660,000 in grants to social entrepreneurs who will lead innovative strategies to build a stronger city.
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Screening: Cracking the Codes sparks conversation about systemic racial inequity and its costs
Tuesday, September 23, 2014OSI-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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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.
