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Pop Culture and Education

Pop Culture Hero Coalition

Star Trek actress Chase Masterson co-founded the organization to help end bullying and improve the social and emotional skills in children by using popular culture as coping tools in schools.

Now What?!

Teaching with the Beatles

TeachRock

Pop Culture Classroom

Teaching Bob Dylan

Star Wars in the Classroom

Hamilton Education Program

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

The tragic massacre during the Vietnam War is explored alongside Flash Thompson’s failed attempt keep a sacred temple from being bombed when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.

Green Arrow and His Times

The Justice League of America Battles Pollution

In a DC comic published to coincided with the first Earth Day in April 1970, the Justice League of America encounter a burning river similar to the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland at the time.

Comic Books and the Real World

Sam Wilson: The U.S.-Mexican Border

Sam Wilson, the newly anointed Captain American in the Marvel Comics Universe, defended migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border despite the political controversy of his actions.