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Pulitzer winner returns home to boost Waterloo learning
Nikole Hannah-Jones visits Waterloo for a 1619 Freedom School holiday event. The Pulitzer Prize winner, rooted in the city, promotes Black literacy, notes past segregation, and signs copies of her children's book for local students.
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