Mychal Threets

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024. What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day. Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Thank you for EVERYTHING, @pbs.org ✨ We love you, we will never give up on you!The support from viewers like us for you is eternal! Public media teaches us kindness, teaches us to enjoy learning, teaches us that we all belong. PBS is my reason to stay. PBS, always and forever ❤️‍🩹💙🩵💚

Can’t talk Super Bowl without Autumn Lockwood. First Black woman to coach in AND win the Super Bowl ✨ Video Description: Mychal wishes you a Happy Bad Bunny Super Bowl Day! He highlights Autumn Lockwood’s impact. Mychal refers to her as history, HERstory, extraordinary 💜 #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨ Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books. We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

Publishing for Minnesota is a response from bookish folks to ongoing ICE raids causing harm to immigrant communities, our neighbors across the country. Funds raised from the auction support those most impacted, in urgent need ❤️‍🩹 Auction opens Thursday, January 29 📚 www.32auctions.com/publishingforMN

BOOK JOY! 🥹 One week until mine and Lorraine Nam’s picture book becomes REALLY, really real! I'm so happy you're here, are you ready for library joy?! 📚 📚 I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY 📚 ✨Available wherever books are sold ✨ 📸: Mom 😂

If your emotions to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota leaving a woman dead are overwhelm, shock, rage, and fear, you are not alone. The person killed in the Minneapolis, Minnesota ICE shooting is Renee Nicole Good ❤️‍🩹

There’s an indoor slide at DC’s MLK library! 😁🛝📚 Video Description: Mychal laughs, saying, “Here we go!” He slides down the indoor slide at DC Public Library's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial central branch. Library friends cheer him on ✨ 📹: @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social

Thank you for watching Reading Rainbow 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: “WHAT?!” Mychal’s goal as host of the Reading Rainbow revival was for an episode to reach 1 million views. An episode has already achieved this! 🤯 He thanks you for supporting the show. We’re doing our best to make LeVar Burton proud 🦋🌌