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Barry: No More Renters in Ward 8! Ward 8 D.C. Councilman Marion Barry plans to introduce a bill today that would prevent the construction of new apartment buildings in the underserved ward. He would rather see an increase in home ownership. He tells reporter Lydia DePillis that “renters, by their very nature, don’t keep up their neighborhoods like homeowners would… Renters will allow drug dealers in the neighborhood. It’s a fact. It’s a doggone fact.” (Washington City Paper)

African American Civil War Museum To Hold Grand Opening D.C.’s African American Civil War Museum reopens next week in a space that’s seven-times as large as the old museum in the U Street corridor.  (WAMU)

Do white people watch black movies? - Even though African Americans tend to see movies of all genres at higher rates than whites, a new study shows that whites don’t tend to see movies with majority or all-black casts. (The Washington Post)

Impoverished border town grows from shacks into community Texas “colonias” are unincorporated settlements that may lack basic services, like running water. Life in one such colonia on the Texas-Mexico border is slowly improving for residents. (CNN)

Immigrants who were celebrities in homeland face abrupt change in status Local immigrants who once had fame in their homelands have a difficult time adjusting to thankless jobs in the U.S. But many of the immigrants interviewed preferred staying in America to returning to their countries of origin.  (The Washington Post)