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)
Twenty-four people were arrested, authorities said. Tear gas, which prompted strong complaints earlier, was not used Wednesday as hundreds were gathered outside the Brooklyn Center police station to protest the death of Daunte Wright.
Daunte Wright s killing resonates in Duluth: We will not give up The local NAACP reissued its demands for Duluth Police Department reform. April 14, 2021 8:28pm Text size Copy shortlink:
DULUTH – Nearly 150 people filled a downtown street Wednesday to protest the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center as refrains of No justice, no peace and Black lives matter pierced an otherwise quiet afternoon. We re being told by police, Put your hands up and you re still killing us, organizer Lamarquita Leach said. There s so much in the system that needs to change. We d have to start a whole new system.
The crowd marched to City Hall from the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, the site where in 1920 a white mob lynched three Black men on false accusations of rape. Since the death of George Floyd last year, the memorial has become a gathering place for those seeking social justice.