Black History Month

Charity Nebbe speaks with the creator of "The 1619 Project" Nikole Hannah-Jones.

The 1619 Freedom School is working to close the literacy gap in the city's elementary schools.

The history of the Civil Rights Movement can feel far away.

We examine the history of the fully-integrated mining town of Buxton and the activism and advocacy of Alexander Clark.

Rev. Ray Dial may be best known as the man who taught Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah Jones the significance of the date 1619. Dial continues to inspire Iowans to strive, think and ask hard questions.

The Grout Museum, founded in 1956, created the Black Stories Collective exhibit in an attempt to correct years of underrepresentation.

After the death of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, Waterloo's Grout Museum of History and Science realized Black history had not often been displayed on its walls. From that conversation, the Black Stories Collective Project was born.

The number of non-white farmers in Iowa is less than one percent, according to the 2017 Agricultural Census.

George Washington Carver was the first Black student at Simpson College and Iowa State, and later the first Black faculty member at Iowa State. He is only the third person to be honored with a statewide day in Iowa — joining Herbert Hoover and agronomist Norman Borlaug

Slavery in Missouri is rarely discussed, but unique geography in its western region helped create a treacherous set of circumstances for the enslaved.