This week s top picks in local arts and entertainment. Written By: Christa Lawler | × The Body Remembers opens indigenous film series
“The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open” is the story of two indigenous women whose worlds intersect on a sidewalk one pregnant, bleeding and on the run, the other fresh from a doctor’s appointment. The women end up spending an emotionally significant amount of time together in the Canadian film directed by Elle-Maija Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn and written by the latter. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Photo by Violator Films/Experimental Forest Films/Oslo Pictures/Film Farms)
meeting with the president today and with attorney general eric holder? i would say that the meeting today, the attorney general and the president were very focused on committing the resources of the full administration, the full federal government to doing everything they can to protect the right to vote. that that s what every american should hear, that your president, your attorney general are committed to making sure that you have the right to vote. they re going to do everything that s necessary. so we talked about the movement that was done, motion that was filed by the attorney general in texas. and north carolina came up for just a quick moment where they talked about clearly this is a bad deal and needs to be examined. ashley, you and bryan and others have been involved in the moral monday protests there in north carolina this summer. what price have you paid for
north carolina, brian perlmutter and ashley mcqueen. brian grew up in charlotte and recently graduated from north carolina state university. ashley mcqueen grew up in raleigh and will be a junior at howard university. ashley, there are provisions in this bill in north carolina targeted at college students there making voting life a little more difficult for them. could you explain some of those elements of the bill? yes. the bill specifically targets college students, specifically mentioning that college i.d.s will not be a proper form of identification for the 2016 elections. it directly attacks me as a college student and a member of a minority group. and brian, is there also a provision in there that college students have to vote where