Education Week

Creator of 1619 Project Launching After-School Literacy Program

A new Black history-focused literacy program has launched in Iowa and will make its curriculum available nationwide as a free, open-source online tool in 2022. Led by Nikole Hannah-Jones, lead author ...
KCCI Des Moines

Waterloo's 1619 Freedom School gives a look inside its program

RHEYA: WATERLOO’SEW N SCHOOL IS GIVING THE PUBLIC A FIRST LOOK AT THE PROGRAM. IT WAS FOUNDED BY WATERLOO NATIVE AND JOURNALIST NILEKO HANNAH-JONES. IT FOCUSES ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF SLAVERY AND ...
Des Moines Register

Pulitzer-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones opening after-school program,'1619 Freedom School,' in Waterloo

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Iowa native Nikole Hannah-Jones is launching a free, community-based after-school literacy program for students in the Waterloo Community School District. The ...
KWWL

Nikole Hannah-Jones launches ‘1619 Freedom School’ after-school program in Waterloo

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) -- Pulitzer Prize winner and Waterloo native Nikole Hannah-Jones has announced her new after-school program for 4th and 5th graders, which will focus on teaching Black American ...
Center for Public Integrity

Inside the effort to make this city a better place for its Black residents

Sheritta Stokes was worried, frustrated and determined to do something. As schools sent children home to protect families from the coronavirus in 2020, she knew the students at her elementary school ...