1619 Freedom School hosts African American Read-In in Waterloo

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African American reading event highlights Black stories for children

Three children’s book authors held storytime for a crowd of over 1,000. The event comes as a response to the Waterloo Community School District withdrawing from a similar event.

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1619 Freedom School hosts African American Read-In in Waterloo

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) -- Saturday, hundreds of people filled the Waterloo West High School Auditorium, for the 1619 Freedom School's African American Read-In.

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Black authors host African American read-in, speak out against anti-DEI policy

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Nikole Hannah-Jones To Host Black Authors 'Read-In' After Iowa District Canceled It To Align With Trump Directives

Source: Variety / Getty Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones is still out here doing the ancestors’ work by promoting revolutionary Black writers and pro-Black literature while the raging white nationalists running America work their hardest to restrict, whitewash and outright ban all Black history and social studies that make white people, in all of their infinite white fragility, feel oppressed.…

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Nikole Hannah-Jones To Host Black Authors ‘Read-In’ After Iowa District Canceled It To Align With Trump Directives

Source: Variety / Getty Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones is still out here doing the ancestors’ work by promoting revolutionary Black writers and pro-Black literature while the raging white nationalists running America work their hardest to restrict, whitewash and outright ban all Black history and social studies that make white people, in all of their infinite white fragility, feel oppressed.…

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Hosts Black Read-In When Schools Wouldn’t - The Sacramento Observer

By Aziah Siid | Word In BlackOverview: Waterloo, Iowa, has the state’s largest concentration of Black schoolchildren, and the town has the largest percentage of Black people in the state. Hannah-Jones created The 1619 Project, a series of articles published by The New York Times, examining how the legacy of slavery is woven throughout American society.(WIB) – Home to the school district with the largest percentage of Black children in Iowa, scho…