The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier23d
African American reading event highlights the importance of Black stories for children
WATERLOO — A children’s reading event featuring Black authors showed the truth of the proverb “it takes a village to raise a child.” An African American Read-In Saturday featured three ...
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Black authors host African American read-in, speak out against anti-DEI policy
Its in response to the Waterloo Community School District withdrawing from the University of Northern Iowa’s African American read-in, which is a nearly 20 year tradition. Four Black children ...
Des Moines Register28d
Fearing federal DEI policies, Waterloo schools withdrew from African American reading event
The Waterloo Community School District withdrew from UNI's annual African American Read-In ... She started the event by reading to a small group of children in Rod Library. The event, now ...
Iowa Public Radio28d
Waterloo's 1619 Freedom School to host canceled African American read-in
A Waterloo after-school literacy program will host the city’s 19 th African ... about is teaching American history," she said last week on IPR's Talk of Iowa. Two children read a picture book ...