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Pop Culture and Education

Now What?!

The nonprofit creates short, animated videos on key domestic issues facing the United States in order to educate the populace and help convince more people to vote in national elections.

TeachRock

Solution Squad

Good Trouble Comics

Star Wars in the Classroom

Drawn to Home

The Marvel Age of Comics

The X-Men and Greenwich Village

During the early 1960s, Iceman and Beast from the X-Men were regular patrons of a coffeeshop in the famed New York City neighborhood, where they listened to Beat poets and quoted Bob Dylan.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Dakota Access Pipeline

The Green Arrow: Rebirth comic book series included a two-issue story arc based on real world protests at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation against the construction of an oil pipeline.

Comic Books and the Real World

Nomad: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Marvel superhero Jack Monroe traveled across the country as Nomad in the early 1990s and found himself in Los Angeles on the night that real-world riots erupted in the City of Angels.