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The desperate drive to secure passports for thousands of US-born Haitian kids – before it’s too late

Par :Stephen Starr in Springfield · Ohio

4 juillet 2025 à 14:00

Advocates in Springfield, Ohio – a city thousands of Haitians now call home – fear the fallout of Trump’s DHS revoking temporary protected status for Haitian nationals

Inside a church a few blocks south of downtown Springfield, Ohio, about 30 concerned Haitians, church leaders and community members have gathered on a balmy summer evening to try to map out a plan.

It’s been just a few days since Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced that Haitian nationals with temporary protected status (TPS) would face termination proceedings in a matter of months. By 2 September, they would be forced out of the US.

‘Our sense of safety was violated’: a Black suburb in Ohio confronts repeated threats from white supremacists

The Guardian

Par :Stephen Starr in Lincoln Heights · Ohio

3 juillet 2025 à 13:00

Residents formed a safety watch after a neo-Nazi march in Lincoln Heights, but racist incidents still cause turmoil

Despite its proximity to a busy highway, Lincoln Heights’ rolling hills, parks and well-kept lawns are pictures of calm suburban life north of Cincinnati.

Today it’s home to about 3,000 mostly African American people a few miles from Kentucky and the Ohio River, which divided free northern states from the slave-owning south. In the 1920s, Lincoln Heights became one of the first self-governing Black communities north of the Mason-Dixon line.