The 1619 Freedom School opened in January in a renovated Masonic Temple, an inviting space overflowing with books like The Youngest Marcher, walls decorated with colorful art and posters about the ...

Waterloo's new 1619 Freedom School is giving the public a first look at the program, KCRG reports. The 1619 Freedom School was founded by Waterloo-native and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

I am so proud to announce the launch of the 1619 Freedom School in my hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, labeled in 2018 the worst place in the U.S. to be Black,” she said.

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 ...

The 1619 Freedom School will be a free, five-day-a-week after-school program targeting students whose standardized test scores show they are behind academically, starting with fourth grade ...

The 1619 Freedom School will offer a five-day-a-week program targeting students whose standardized test scores show they are behind academically — starting with fourth-grade students at the ...

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.

Hannah-Jones announced the creation of the 1619 Freedom School, which will be located in Waterloo, on her Twitter page on Tuesday. “It’s not enough to succeed if your community is struggling.

GB: If you’re wondering why start this project in Waterloo, Iowa, Jones and other members of the 1619 Freedom School were raised there. SWN: So the 1619 Freedom School is a broader initiative. It’s a ...

The 1619 Freedom School was launched by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones with a team of Waterloo educators and community leaders to provide a free, community-based after ...

The 1619 Freedom School was founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of The 1619 Project, and Waterloo native and Jones' lifelong friend, and teacher Sheritta Stokes.

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.