Iowa Public Radio2d
Waterloo's 1619 Freedom School to host canceled African American read-in
The Waterloo after-school literacy program co-founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones will host the city’s 19th African American ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier20d
1619 Freedom School hosting screening of 'Nickel Boys,' conversation with director
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 ...
Fearing federal DEI policies, Waterloo schools withdrew from African American reading event
Waterloo schools, a minority-majority district, declined to participate in the African American Read-In. The 1619 Freedom ...
Des Moines Register2d
Fearing federal DEI policies, Waterloo schools withdrew from African American reading event
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 ...
The Sacramento Observer1h
Nikole Hannah-Jones Hosts Black Read-In When Schools Wouldn’t
(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 ...
Little Village Magazine14h
Waterloo schools withdrew 1st graders from a Black History Month book event, citing Trump orders. So locals organized an even bigger version.
Acclaimed authors and readers of all ages are gathering in Waterloo for an event on Saturday, but it’s not a new book ...
WGN-TV26d
Freedom Rider shares his story at Black History celebration in Markham
1619 The Journey of a People is a theatrical ... “The state was segregated. Schools were segregated.” Freedom Riders were groups of mostly young Black and White students who road buses across ...
The political issues behind the Trump administration’s attack on DEI
The White House is using widespread animosity toward DEI to arrogate new powers to the executive branch and dismantle ...