South Africa’s Xenophobic Violence Is Sparking Hard Conversations In The DMV

As vigilante groups drive tens of thousands of migrants out of South Africa, Washington’s African diaspora…

Code Red Air Alert Puts DMV’s Outdoor Gig Workers At Risk

The Maryland Department of the Environment issued a Code Red Air Quality Alert for Friday, July…

Judge Blocks ICE Detention Center Planned for Hagerstown Warehouse

A federal judge’s ruling on an 825,000-square-foot Washington County warehouse has become a test case for…

Supreme Court TPS Ruling Narrows the Fight for African Families in the DMV

A June 25 decision limits how much courts can second-guess DHS on Temporary Protected Status, leaving…

Adrian Boafo Wins Maryland Primary in a Race That Made African Diaspora Political History

Three candidates with direct African roots competed for the same congressional seat in one of the…

New DMV Laws This Week: What African Immigrant Workers and Families Need to Know Now

Virginia expanded wage theft protections, automatically sealed criminal records, and tightened eviction rules. DC’s minimum wage…

Maryland’s New 2026 Laws: 7 Things Every African Immigrant and Diaspora Resident Needs to Know

Maryland’s new laws for 2026 did not arrive with fanfare. They landed on June 1 across…

Deportations of African Migrants Tripled Under Trump. What That Means for the DMV

There is a woman who lived in Maryland for thirty years. She came from Sierra Leone.…

Russia Lured Cameroonians Into Its War — and 16 of Them Died. The DMV’s Cameroonian Community Is Asking How.

The phone rang in a home in Yaoundé on a Monday morning in April. On the…

Third Country Deportations and What African Immigrants in the DMV Must Know Now

Something unprecedented is happening inside the U.S. immigration system, and far too many people in the…