In 2021, the same year The Freedom School opened, Hannah-Jones rejected an offer of tenure at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina. UNC's board of trustees had refused to vote on her ...

Small groups in the school focus on group reading. In the Freedom School’s first year alone, the program’s 5 th graders improved their state literacy scores by about 30 percentage points.

The 1619 Freedom School in Waterloo was honored with the prestigious Iowa State Education Association’s 2024 Paul Mann Memorial Human Relations Award.

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 ...

The 1619 Freedom School, a Waterloo-based after-school literacy program focused on increasing literacy rates through books on Black American history and culture, is hosting its own read-in on ...

The 1619 Freedom School in Waterloo is hosting a community-wide “read-in” featuring Pulitzer Prize- winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones and other award-winning children’s book authors.

The 1619 freedom school handed out more than 3,000 to children who came to listen. Hannah-Jones said it’s an effort to push back against recent changes to state and federal laws that ban certain ...

She also co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and the 1619 Freedom School, a free afterschool literacy program in Waterloo, Iowa, her hometown.

She also co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and the 1619 Freedom School, a free afterschool literacy program in Waterloo, Iowa, her hometown.

She read that book during a high school history class, which first sparked her interest in the year 1619. Want to go What: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones. When: 5 p.m., Thurs., March 21.

From left: The 1619 Freedom School leadership team Joy Briscoe, Sheritta Stokes, Lori Dale, Sharina Sallis and Nikole Hannah-Jones pose for a photo. Joy Harrington is not pictured.

The 1619 Freedom School, a Waterloo-based after-school literacy program focused on increasing literacy rates through books on Black American history and culture, is hosting its own read-in on ...