Source: WYPR | Author: Lawrence Lanahan | Date of original publication: June 28, 2013 Previously on our program, we’ve examined the lack of diversity at nonprofits in the region, particularly in executive leadership roles. Many of these nonprofits are working to address social problems concentrated in poor neighborhoods—neighborhoods that are often populated overwhelmingly by people of color. Today, we’ll explore […]
Source: BME | Date of original publication: May 14, 2013 In Summer 2013, LBS was awarded a grant from Black Male Engagement (BME) to help fund the Eddie Conway Liberation Institute (ECLI) at Morgan State University. The $20,000 grant supported the inaugural year of the institute, which is currently the only policy debate camp at a historically […]
Source: Truthout Magazine | By: Victoria Law | March, 11 2013 While Illinois is closing two youth prisons as a cost-cutting measure, other states are not. Washington State’s King County recently passed a $210 million renovation and expansion of its youth jail. Undeterred, activists work to halt the jail. In Baltimore, organizing against a youth […]
Source: Baltimore Sun, January 24, 2013, Lionel Foster At first glance, Dayvon Love is easy to overlook. At 5 foot 9, he has average height and a slightly larger than average build. As he carefully takes in everything and everyone in a room, he might initially seem painfully shy. So when he finally speaks, his observations can […]
Co-authored by: Adam Jackson and Nicholas Brady LBS has done a lot of working challenging the construction of a new youth detention center in Baltimore. This effort has helped to highlight the way institutional racism and the prison industrial complex manifests themselves here in Baltimore. It’s important that we don’t assume that this is the […]
Organizations like Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, the Baltimore Algebra Project, the Just Kids partnership and many other groups have been essential in fighting the proposed youth jail for the past few years. There have also been dynamic community leaders like Pastor Heber Brown, III, Jamye Wooten, Delegate Jill P. Carter and others who have […]