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The Native American comedy troupe, The 1491s, is an intertribal group of comedians who have regularly satirized, lampooned, parodied, and teased many aspects of Indian life, including digs at Westward Expansion as well as more contemporary aspects, like New Age Shamanism and Hollywood depictions of the First Nations.  Well established on YouTube, the five members have committed much of their energy recently on their first theatrical production, Between Two Knees, which premiered this past weekend at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, Oregon.

Source: A Chat With ‘The 1491s’ On Making Light Of Heavy Indigenous History | KLCC

Mexico recently asked Spain to apologise for Hernan Cortes’ Conquista. Are apologies to the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere overdue?

Source: Apologies for yesterday’s crimes: Spain and its Conquistadors

The Washington State Department of Corrections quietly rolled out a new policy via a memo on their website last month which disallows books to be donated to prisons via nonprofit organizations. So quietly, in fact, that one of the largest nonprofits that works to get donated materials to prisoners was taken by surprise to discover the change. They weren’t informed before it was implemented.

Source: Washington Department of Corrections Quietly Bans Book Donations to Prisoners From Nonprofits

Is President Donald Trump aware residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands are, in fact, Americans? It’s unclear.

Source: President Trump Doesn’t Know He’s the President of the U.S. Virgin Islands

Rocket scientist and barbecue pitmaster Dr. Howard Conyers talks aeroelastic engineering, whole-hog roasting, and how black pitmasters have been written out of the history of barbecue.

Source: Dr. Howard Conyers is Reclaiming BBQ for Black Pitmasters

What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called mycorrhizae—with fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another.

Source: How trees secretly talk to each other in the forest

Learn more about this history of racial injustice.

Source: On Apr 09, 1951: Supreme Court Reverses Wrongful Conviction in Florida; Sheriff Later Shoots Both Defendants

According to NBC News, the Richmond Police Department launched an internal investigation after 13-year-old Cameron Hillard, a student at Albert Hill Middle School in Richmond, Va., shared a clip of a police officer yelling out his cruiser window to a group of students.

Source: Richmond Cop: ‘Wait Till Your Asses Turn 18. Then You’re Mine’

Black churches are being burned in Louisiana. In a span of 10 days, three historically Black churches have been destroyed by fire, according to The New York Times. The first fire occurred on March 26, 2016, at St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre. On April 2, Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas burned, and Mount…

Source: Why are Black churches being burned in Louisiana? – Rolling Out

Dietary rules need to consider the land needed to grow the food, cautions new study.

Source: We can run out of land to grow food, warns study – Big Think