WATERLOO — Children at the 1619 Freedom School learned possibilities are endless for them while speaking with an Oscar-nominated film director. RaMell Ross, the director of “Nickel Boys ...

WATERLOO — The 1619 Freedom School will host Academy Award-nominated writer and director RaMell Ross and a free community screening of "Nickel Boys." The film, based on Colson Whitehead's ...

The 1619 Freedom School in Waterloo is hosting a community-wide “read-in” featuring Pulitzer Prize- winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones and other award-winning children’s book authors.

The 1619 Freedom School also will host a free community screening of "Nickel Boys," an Academy Award-nominated film based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name on ...

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.

Hannah-Jones started the 1619 Freedom School, an after-school literacy program in Waterloo, and said that none of the funding for the project came from Iowa.

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