KWWL News 71d
1619 Freedom School hosts African American Read-In in Waterloo
Saturday, hundreds of people filled the Waterloo West High School Auditorium, for the 1619 Freedom School's African American Read-In.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier1d
Director of 'Nickel Boys' speaks to 1619 Freedom School students, hosts free screening
Children at the 1619 Freedom School learned possibilities are endless for them while speaking with an Oscar-nominated film director.
Iowa Public Radio5d
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 ...
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 Register6d
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 ...
KCRG on MSN1d
Black authors host African American read-in, speak out against anti-DEI policy
Hundreds of people gathered at Waterloo West High School Saturday to listen to Black authors read their books.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier1d
African American reading event highlights Black stories for children
Three children’s book authors held storytime for a crowd of over 1,000. The event comes as a response to the Waterloo ...
The Sacramento Observer3d
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 ...