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Jamar Brown, a partner in the Litigation group at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, LLP, and a champion of several justice-seeking organizations in Baltimore, has stepped in as Chair of OSI’s Advisory Board, replacing William C. Clarke, III, who has chaired the Board for the last ten years and will remain an Advisory Board member. “I am […]

Today, Open Society Institute-Baltimore releases a Request for Proposals (RFP), inviting eligible organizations to apply for rapid response funding designed to provide critical supports to individuals in Maryland who use drugs, are incarcerated, or were recently released from incarceration, and thus are at increased risks of contracting COVID-19, suffering a fatal overdose, or being re-incarcerated. […]

Many of these titles can be purchased through local, independent booksellers like Red Emma’s, The Ivy, and Greedy Reads. Many can also be found on audiobook sites like Audible We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander The Village Bully, Maria Broom (2004 OSI Community Fellow) The Color of […]

  General Information The Baltimore City Health Department Novel Coronavirus website – Includes information for general public, clinicians, community and business leaders, parents, and older adults and caregivers, travel information, infographics, and links and resources. Baltimore City Health Department COVID-19 Dashboard – Data on COVID-19 case in Baltimore City by zip code, age, and sex, as […]

On Sunday, December 8, Writers in Baltimore Schools, an organization founded by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, celebrated 10 years of empowering the voices of students in Baltimore City Schools. Hutton founded WBS to offer provide creative writing opportunities for Baltimore City middle and high school students.  In her remarks, Hutton spoke of her […]

Recently, Lauren Goodsmith was honored with the Impact Partner Award at Fusion Partnerships’ “Founders Day” event for her work with the Intercultural Counseling Connection, an organization that provides therapeutic care and counseling to refugees and forced migrants in Maryland who have experienced trauma due to conflict, torture and other types of harm. Goodsmith founded the […]

On Sunday, November 17, Lady Brion, 2015 OSI fellow and acting director of Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts District, will present “Baltimore Kings of Poetry,” a spoken word poetry event featuring Lamar Anthony Hill, Slangston Hughes, Black Chakra, Rasheed Copeland, and Archie The Messager and hosted by Nova Gray. Tickets and more information can be […]

This week, 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton was on WYPR’s Humanities Connection to introduce a new initiative for her program, Writers In Baltimore Schools, which provides in-school, after-school and summer creative writing workshops to Baltimore City middle and high school students. With “Neighborhoods, News: A Poetic Archiving of Baltimore,” 16 WBS students will have […]