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Change from Within: Three Stories from New Orleans
August 26, 2010
video VIDEO  
This short film features a community organizer, a public defender, and a journalist, working to rebuild their city through criminal justice reform, greater transparency, and arts and culture.

About U.S. Programs
OSI's U.S. Programs aims to address core threats to open society, including increasingly punitive national security policies, decreasing government transparency, entrenched structural racism, and growing incarceration rates.

What Does Justice Mean to You?
video VIDEO  
The Soros Justice Fellowships support leaders from around the United States to undertake projects that address problems with the criminal justice system. This video shares some of their voices.

Live Webcast: Unleashing the Power of Art, Culture, and Media to Transform Black Communities
Harlem Children's Zone, New York City
December 6, 2010
This town hall discussion looks at the role art and culture can play in addressing the negative perceptions of black men and boys in American society.

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: A Funders Conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu
New York City
November 16, 2010
This event looks at how local and national philanthropic communities have sustained investment in New Orleans and opportunities for further investment in the region, as well as new potential for relationships between Mayor Landrieu's administration and the philanthropic sectors in New Orleans and New York.

When Sheriffs Become De Facto Immigration Agents
Raquiba LaBrie
December 1, 2010
blog BLOG   video VIDEO   audio AUDIO
After Antonio Ocampo, a day laborer, served a short sentence for simple battery last August, a judge ordered him released from the Orleans Parish Prison. Nearly 100 days later, he was still there.

Beyond the Bell Curve
Ivory A. Toldson
November 24, 2010
blog BLOG  
When you really dig into the numbers, educational inferiority is less of a black male problem and more of an American problem.

NPR Announces Plan to Bolster News Coverage of State Government Nationwide
October 18, 2010
Supported by a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations, the initiative aims to bring greater transparency and accountability to the workings of state legislatures.

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