Forum, festival aims to illuminate Latino community

Organizers seek money from cityto pay for event

By MIKE VOSS

Contributing Editor

The Washington Human Relations Council supports a proposal to bring a forum and festival that focus on the area’s Latino community to Washington in October.

Representatives of the Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, a nonprofit group organizing the events, also plan to ask the city for money to help put on the events Oct. 17-18.

“The forum and festival will support Amexcan’s mission, providing both educational/academic (forum) and social (festival) opportunities to further cultural understanding between Latino- and non-Latino populations,â€