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On Sunday, 2017 OSI Community Fellow Ausar Daniels (also known as Ausar Amen), was featured in the Baltimore Sun. Ausar is currently the farm manager at Tubman House Farms, a free produce garden run by the Tubman House, a community center established to support residents of Sandtown-Winchester  and surrounding neighborhoods. Ausar’s fellowship, the Greater Mondawmin […]

In it’s August Best of Baltimore issue, Baltimore magazine awarded Morgan State University Professor and 2012 OSI Community Fellow Lawrence Brown Best Twitter Feed. Last year, at OSI-Baltimore’s first 20th Anniversary Event, Dr. Brown was awarded the “Bold Thinker” award for his powerful analysis of structural racism in Baltimore City.

Today at City Hall, Mayor Jack Young announced that the city would commit $150,000 to continuing the Safe City Baltimore initiative, which provides representation and other support for immigrants facing deportation proceedings. OSI-Baltimore and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs co-founded the initiative in 2017 to protect the due process of Baltimore immigrants threatened by […]

On Friday and Saturday, OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program hosts its fifth Advocacy and Leadership Training cohort (pictured) in Elkton, Maryland. The trainings are designed to bring together groups of people around the state with lived experience with addiction and help them connect to local, statewide, and national advocacy efforts around drugs and addiction. […]

On November 7th, the Women’s Law Center of Maryland will honor OSI-Baltimore Acting Director Tracy Brown, along with Erricka Bridgeford of Baltimore Ceasefire and Community Mediation Maryland, and The Honorable Diane Orlick Leasure, as “exceptional leaders in women’s rights, family law, and access to justice” at the organization’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony. Brown was […]

OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board Vice Chair, Joe Jones, was recently profiled in the Kresge Foundation’s annual report as a standout leader. Jones, who is the president and CEO of the Center for Urban Families (CFUF), was recognized among eight other leaders across the United States for understanding the importance of economic and domestic stability for Baltimore […]

On Friday, August 9, Writers in Baltimore Schools, a program founded by 2008 Baltimore Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, will hold its 8th annual Young Writers’ Summer Studio Showcase. Participants – middle and high school students from 10 Baltimore City schools – will read original fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.   The showcase will be from 7-9pm […]

Evan Serpick, OSI-Baltimore’s director of strategic communications, was interviewed by Los Angeles radio station KNX about President Donald Trump’s attacks on Baltimore. “I think most people in Baltimore see it as part of a racist pattern of demonizing people of color, demonizing opponents, really anyone, like Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has challenged him and challenged […]

This weekend’s misinformed, racist tirades made it clear that Donald Trump doesn’t consider Baltimore part of his America. The Baltimore President Trump sees is a racist caricature of urban blight. It is useful only as fuel for 240-character grenades lobbed at public servants who dare to call him out. The Baltimore we see is something […]