Overview
- Minecraft Education is promoting the free Lessons in Good Trouble download for Black History Month on the Minecraft Marketplace.
- Players encounter block-style versions of John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Malala Yousafzai across scenes like the Edmund Pettus Bridge and Greensboro sit-ins.
- The experience includes a Black Lives Matter lesson that begins at a peaceful protest and references Black Lives Matter Plaza in its materials.
- Mojang developed the content with Teaching Tolerance, a Southern Poverty Law Center project, and previously announced a donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund tied to the original launch.
- The renewed promotion drew strong reactions on social media, with critics calling it indoctrination and some warning it could be modded into offensive videos as the trailer amassed tens of millions of views.