Iowa Public Radio1d
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 Register1d
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 ...
Dallas Weekly14h
Nikole Hannah-Jones Hosts Black Read-In When Schools Wouldn’t
Nikole Hannah-Jones hosts a free African American Read-In in Waterloo, Iowa, after schools canceled the event due to ...
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier6d
Nikole Hannah-Jones hosting read-in event in after district pulls out of similar event
The event will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 15 at Waterloo West's auditorium. The first 300 families will receive a tote bag and copies of books for ...
The Heritage Foundation2dOpinion
Breaking the DEI Trance
At the height of the fateful year of 2020, while Black Lives Matter activists roamed the streets of our cities, setting fire ...
The Sacramento Observer2d
Roberts Family Development Center’s Freedom School Seeks Interns
Discover how the Roberts Family Development Center's Freedom School program empowers students of color with literacy, ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press4d
Review: ‘Spell Freedom’ looks at literacy schools in the segregated South, including Monteagle’s Highlander Folk School
There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...