Hannah-Jones, who said the 1619 Freedom School’s curriculum will be made freely available to anyone who wants to work on student literacy in their own area, would like more attention on the many ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

SWN: So the 1619 Freedom School is actually an after-school literacy program that was started by the local community members and educators in Waterloo, Iowa. So this is a community initiative. One of ...

The 1619 Freedom School is working to close the literacy gap in the city's elementary schools. For four afternoons every week, the second floor of Waterloo’s historic Masonic Temple is flooded ...

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.

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.

The 1619 Freedom School aims to change that standing. It offers solely an afterschool program, focused on raising the lagging literacy rates of Black fourth and fifth graders.