Children at the 1619 Freedom School learned possibilities are endless for them while speaking with an Oscar-nominated film director.
The Waterloo after-school literacy program co-founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones will host the city’s 19th African American ...
WATERLOO — The 1619 Freedom School will host Academy Award-nominated writer and director RaMell Ross and a free community screening of "Nickel Boys." The film, based on Colson Whitehead's ...
Waterloo schools, a minority-majority district, declined to participate in the African American Read-In. The 1619 Freedom ...
Hundreds of people gathered at Waterloo West High School Saturday to listen to Black authors read their books.
In response, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Waterloo native Nikole Hannah-Jones organized an alternative read-in event through her organization, The 1619 Freedom School. The controversy ...
(WIB) – Home to the school district with the largest percentage of Black children in Iowa, schoolchildren in the city of Waterloo, population 67,000, typically participated in an annual statewide ...