The Waterloo after-school literacy program co-founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones will host the city’s 19th African American ...

Waterloo schools, a minority-majority district, declined to participate in the African American Read-In. The 1619 Freedom ...

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 ...

WATERLOO — The 1619 Freedom School will host a free community African American Read-In in response to Waterloo Schools decision to withdraw from a similar statewide event. The event will run ...

Acclaimed authors and readers of all ages are gathering in Waterloo for an event on Saturday, but it’s not a new book ...

At the height of the fateful year of 2020, while Black Lives Matter activists roamed the streets of our cities, setting fire to buildings and shocking much of the country into weirdly accepting ...

Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, will speak at Sonoma State April 3 as part of the H. Andréa Neves ...

Discover how the Roberts Family Development Center's Freedom School program empowers students of color with literacy, ...