For four afternoons every week, the second floor of Waterloo’s historic Masonic Temple is flooded with the sounds of shouts and sneakers. They're made by 4 th and 5 th graders attending the 1619 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EDWARDSVILLE — Four hundred years ago, the first Africans landed in Old Point Comfort, Virginia. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Black Studies Program and the Office of the Provost presented ...

President Donald Trump won’t allow California schools to incorporate a curriculum based on the controversial New York Times 1619 Project. Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education was ...