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June 08, 2017
About 2,000 people in Maryland died of drug overdoses last year and the governor has declared a “State of Emergency.” Join OSI-Baltimore as we discuss the historical tensions between drug policy advocates and communities of color, which have carried the heaviest burden in both health consequences and punitive criminal justice responses to drug use
University of Baltimore Law School’s Moot Court Room, 1401 N. Charles St., Baltimore6:30 pm EST -
May 18, 2017
About 2,000 people in Maryland died of drug overdoses last year and the governor has declared a "State of Emergency." Join OSI-Baltimore and the New Day Campaign to discuss how facilities where people who use drugs can inject opioids in a medical setting reduces overdoses and increases access to treatment.
Maryland Art Place, 218 W. Saratoga Street , Baltimore6:00 pm EST -
April 17, 2017
Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman, Jr. talks about his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, with University of Baltimore Law School Dean Ron Weich, U.S. Court of Appeals Senior Judge Andre M. Davis, and University of Baltimore Law School Professor Odeana Neal. As Forman describes, the first […]
University of Baltimore Moot Court Room, 1420 N. Charles Street, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
March 22, 2017
How can a thorough understanding of the African-American-led freedom movement of the 1950s and 60s inform those looking to create a new sustaining civil rights movement to defend communities threatened by new federal and local policies? Eminent historian Taylor Branch, author of the seminal trilogy America in the King Years and a member of OSI-Batlimore’s […]
University of Baltimore Moot Court Room, 1401 N. Charles St., Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
March 07, 2017
OSI-Baltimore and the Baltimore City Office of the Public Defender present a FREE screening and discussion of Ava DuVernay’s landmark documentary “13th,” which looks at racial disparities in the criminal justice system as an ongoing form of slavery (officially outlawed by the 13th Amendment), as part of OSI’s Talking About Race series. After the screening, […]
University of Baltimore Moot Court Room, 1420 N. Charles Street, Baltimore6:30 pm EST -
January 31, 2017
The first in a series of events, “Addiction Now: Opioid, Opioid, Opioid” will take a look at the current opioid crisis both here and abroad. What is it? Why are we in it? What can be done about it? And what is currently being done about it? Participants will also examine the crisis through a historical […]
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore5:00 pm EST
Open Society Institute – Baltimore
Open Society Institute (OSI) – Baltimore : Audacious Thinking For Lasting Change
