As part of our Day of Teaching the Grateful Dead professional learning event with @teachrockorg.bsky.social, the NYC Department of Social Studies & Civics released a collaborative lesson plan, Getting on the Bus with the Grateful Dead available here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Learn more ancient history this weekend. It will put the present issues in perspective. Every past was once a future. #afrofuturism

What a fantastic way to open @nycschools.bsky.social’s Department of Social Studies & @teachrockorg.bsky.social five session Let The Music Play Professional Learning Tour, A Day of Teaching The Grateful Dead at Brooklyn Bowl. Truly one of the highlights of my 27 year career!

To get home to New York from Camelot, time lost baseball fan Danny Landau is going f---ing MEDIEVAL. Issue #1 is out TUESDAY from me, @alexcormack.bsky.social @sarahstarlitt.bsky.social & @comixology.bsky.social Originals. 🔗 PREORDER: amzn.to/4nTBI9h 🔗 INFO: www.neilkleidbooks.com/books/medieval

Thinking about Jamaica and the future of freedom. #afrofuturism

I'm sending my next newsletter tomorrow morning. This is the best way to get all the happenings in my neck of the woods, and photos I do not upload to social media feeds. buttondown.com/latinxpress

“[Portnoy] had considered Jersey City or Hoboken as alternative locations for Barstool HQ.” Let me be tbe fist to say Jersey doesn’t want you, Dave! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Donna had been contributing so much to the “The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast” podcast recently and I'm really gonna miss that too. Her insights into the Europe 72 tour were so amazing. www.dead.net/deadcast/eur...

I am a huge fan of NYC voting signage! Taken at 52 Chambers, NY NY (right behind City Hall).

Had a great time with Bill Carbone of TeachRock talking with @dgans.bsky.social & Gary Lambert on Tales From the Golden Road about NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics & @teachrockorg.bsky.social’s Day of Teaching The Grateful Dead, coming up this Friday at Brooklyn Bowl!

Thanks @losangelesblade.bsky.social & Joel Medina for this wonderful article about the Queer History 101 Book Club that @peppermint247.bsky.social and I run for Allstora books! www.losangelesblade.com/2025/10/30/p...

Hanging out for Halloween with Snoopy & Bernie!

At Comic Con, @peppermint247.bsky.social and I talked with icon @georgetakei.bsky.social about his "two incarcerations" - the internment he suffered at the hands of the US Gov't during WWII (for the "crime" of being Japanese-American), and his decades in the closet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yQL...

Still a few seats left for NYC Ts for NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics & @teachrockorg.bsky.social for A Day of Teaching The Grateful Dead! This PL, 11/7, at Brooklyn Bowl is first stop in our Rock & Roll Classroom 25-26 Tour! Register: nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/day-o...

Death to Pachuco #1 is now in stores! Go to your local comic shop and demand a copy! BTS: we started recording right before the NYCC artist alley floor closed! Preorder 👉🏽 bindings.app/read/2Ff3kNs7 #noir #comicbookart #truecrime #imagecomics #topcow

New updates added this week -- because we keep getting more bad news about AI tools.

I first interviewed @tourmaliiine.bsky.social about her work bringing focus to Marsha P. Johnson A DECADE AGO, and I have learned so much from her ever since. I'm excited to continue this conversation tonight at the Center for Brooklyn History www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

Join NYC’s Department of Social Studies & Civics & @teachrockorg.bsky.social for A Day of Teaching The @grateful-dead.bsky.social! This PL, November 7, at Brooklyn Bowl, for NY Teachers is the first stop in our Rock & Roll Classroom 25-26 Tour! nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/day-o...

Kiyoshi Kuromiya. Pauli Murray. International Chrysis. This week, @peppermint247.bsky.social & I talk all about trailblazers - the identity that links our Sept book (MARSHA, @tourmaliiine.bsky.social) with our Oct book (IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI, @georgetakei.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MEC...

Friends in D.C. area. Join us tomorrow eve to hear from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about his timely @haymarketbooks.org book on reparations & climate justice. Order dinner & drinks from menu while learning in good company at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social. www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” -- Steve Biko, South Africa Defend the #FreedomtoLearn #NoKings

"Access to books decreases recidivism. . . . [Yet] U.S. prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs. This has not changed, even as school and public library book challenges have skyrocketed in numbers since 2021. . . Why? bigotry, racism, and profit motive." Read ⬇️

With the Voting Rights Act in front of SCOTUS, here are lessons and books for K-12 on the history of voter suppression and the long (ongoing) fight for voting rights. #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

Continuing on the inspiration high provided by reading MARSHA, Pep and I discussed queer film history on our last podcast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylZ...

I’m lucky DANI & Brad had time in their busy schedule to whip up this DEATH TO PACHUCO #2 cover! FOC is this Monday, so preorder now! I got to see her briefly and the OG art. It’s for sale at Baltimore, so if you want to get it and have bragging rights…now’s your chance! bindings.app/read/mSKP0oGO

Historian Yohuru Williams recounts the history of the Black Panther Party in the United States, established Oct 15, 1966, in Oakland, CA www.history.com/this-day-in-...

#tdih 1968 We all recognize iconic photo of Black Power salute by Tommie Smith & John Carlos at Olympics. But, what were their demands? What happened before & after? How did they organize? What was Peter Norman's role? #TeachOutsideTextbook Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ol...

In which @peppermint247.bsky.social and I talk about queer film, ancestors, inspirations, and of course, how much we are inspired by MARSHA by @tourmaliiine.bsky.social - our book of the month! If you prefer to listen check out Queer 101 everywhere you get podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylZ...

NYCC was pretty great (even though it took me two whole days to recover), especially Sunday when I got to hang out with this knucklehead all day. Comic-con just isn't the same without @fredvanlente.bsky.social.

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

See you this weekend at @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social ! I'll be at table 118 with @fredvanlente.bsky.social and copies of ACTION PHILOSOPHERS, THE COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF COMICS, BAD GUY, original art and more. See you soon! baltimorecomiccon.com/guest/ryan-d...

4 mini-series. 4 genres. 1 creator - @ryandunlavey.com 16 single issue comic books. MONTHLY. Serialized weekly on Patreon with single issues available for direct purchase (print & digital) as they're published. Full details here: www.patreon.com/posts/im-mak...

Sitting in the Civics for All panel at NYCC. So inspiring what has been accomplished (5 years, 5 million comics given) and what is on the near horizon, in particular the "Know Your Rights" comic that is super exciting.

I also received these awesome nyc civics comics that can be found online here. They're great reads for kids sites.google.com/schools.nyc....

Awesome resource from #NYCC. These are comic books for Social Studies and Civics in tons of grade levels and units. They were giving out free printed copies but they said all the comic books are free in their digital library for all. So check it out. sites.google.com/schools.nyc....

Getting stuck into my NYCC reading pile already. I know what to expect with @henrybarajas.bsky.social’s stories, so no shock that it was a gripping and meaningful book, working perfectly with @ohhhaeee.bsky.social’s striking and unique artistic style. As for the colours, well Lee is a master!

NCSS, @historians.org and @oah.org urge the public to submit comments on the proposed patriotic education funding priority. Learn more and take action: hubs.ly/Q03NkFzN0

And PLEASE be on the lookout for @alexsegura.bsky.social and @davidhahn.bsky.social's new Civics for All project - a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic for NYC public school kids! Literally the most important announcement out of this year's NYCC, if you ask me. ❤️ blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Got to sign and do a panel with the amazing folks with the NYC DOE'S Civics for All Comics imprint! They are truly world-changers - creating diverse, accessible, and amazing non-fiction comics for kids - and I love 'em! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

The Civics For All Comics Group are the UNDEFEATED COMIC BOOK CHAMPIONS of every NYCC they've been at. They run the best panels, they love making great comics and they give them all away for free! They're the absolute best.

That’s a wrap for NYC’s Civics For All Comics Group at NY Comic Con! Gave away ~17,000 FREE educational comics. Hosted 7 panels on Educator’s Day including one with @georgetakei.bsky.social and held a bunch of signings, and met 1000s of incredible people! Thank you to all!

SO MANY FREE COMICS Y'ALL! Your heads will explode, in a good way! Get over there and get some!

If you are at NYCC 25 Sunday, stop by Civics For All Comics Group BOOTH 4453 l. We still have FREE copies of @gregpak.net’s @alexsegura.bsky.social & @davidhahn.bsky.social’s @geneluenyang.bsky.social’s @kaysohini.bsky.social’s comics & many more! @ryandunlavey.com will be signing @ the table too!

Redman gave his seal of approval to Civics For All Comics Group and the Graphic History of Hip Hop #1! “This is f@$*%#!g dope!”

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I hosted a panel at New York Comic Con about Minecraft Education with my students! We also had a parent of one of the students on the panel as well. #NYCC

Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP). It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!