Cynthia Pols & Jose Sueiro

In a city where 59% of residents are renters, affordable housing is key to maintaining diversity in the District. The long-term viability of the District as a diverse and healthy community is threatened by the City Council’s continuing failure to tackle the affordable housing crisis.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center in Washington, D.C., present "Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America's Past Revealed," a new major bilingual exhibition opening today!. This exhibition illuminates Central America's vibrant ancestral heritage. For thousands of years, Central America has been home to complex civilizations, each with unique, sophisticated ways of life, value systems and arts. The ceramics these diverse communities left behind, combined with recent archaeological discoveries, help tell the stories of these cultures and their achievements. The exhibition examines seven regions representing distinct Central American cultural areas that are today part of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The exhibition will be open through Feb. 1, 2015, in the third level W. Richard West Jr. Contemporary Arts Gallery.

Franklin Garcia (Reproduced from the DC IReporter)

On April 10th, 2013 an immigration reform rally will take place on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington DC. The Rally/March organized by a number of local and national organizations, including CARECEN, Casa de Maryland and the SEIU is another effort by pro-immigrant groups to call attention to the need to address the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Many of the organizers believe that now is the time to push for bipartisan legislation that addresses the outdated immigration laws in the U.S.