The 1619 Freedom School will help students improve literacy skills and develop a passion for reading through "liberating instruction centered on Black American history," its mission says.

Waterloo-Cedar Falls was ranked the worst place in America for a Black person to live by 24/7 Wall Street in 2018. The 1619 Freedom School aims to change that standing. It offers solely an ...

The 1619 Freedom School opted to host with the encouragement of the district. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the school’s co-founder and Waterloo native, ...

The 1619 Freedom School created the event in response to recent controversy, after the Waterloo Community School District withdrew from a statewide first grader event, ...

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

The 1619 Freedom School was borne out of the pandemic. Co-founders Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 Project, ...

Waterloo schools, a minority-majority district, declined to participate in the African American Read-In. The 1619 Freedom School is hosting its own instead.

The African American Museum of Dallas is hosting its yearly Freedom Schools, teaching Black history to North Texans. Students ...

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.

The “history wars” have heated up as more schools are debating whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to Virginia’s first Africans facing slavery in 1619.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a 'native daughter' of Waterloo, Iowa, is trying to change its reputation as one of the worst places for a Black person to live.