In a moving scene she asks the class ... their lives and understand the difficulties they experience daily. "Freedom Writers" is based on the real diaries of these Long Beach students after ...

In "Freedom Writers," Hilary Swank plays a bright-eyed, enthusiastic teacher who skips into a slummy, scummy school crawling with seemingly impenetrable gangster kids. Through psychology and ...

Erin Gruwell, the inspiration behind the movie "Freedom Writers" was the guest speaker at the YWCA Women's Luncheon. She challenged audience members to use their time, talents and treasures to ...

Amanda McCoy, a fellow from the Freedom Writers Program, highlighted the importance of reading as a bonding activity, sharing her personal experience of reading with her grandson. “It’s a way ...

In her memoir No Fault, Haley Mlotek explores divorce in its contemporary iterations, asking what it means in a culture that privileges an individual’s freedom ... one of the writers who ...

But did divorcées really throw their rings into the river, or was the scene just ... Some writers argue that ring tossing in what once was known as the Divorce Capital of the World is a myth.

Claire Volkman got divorced and spent the following year traveling to 20 countries. Some of the dates during her trips across Asia, South America, and Australia led to more heartbreak. Volkman ...

“It’s like jumping in a sketchy van and ripping away to freedom,” the website says ... it’s because the story of God is in the movie. And even if the writers, the producer, the director don’t know ...

Early in Aftermath Cusk describes the battleground of her divorce: “My husband believed ... Cusk depicts many scenes of cruelty – from the everyday way we treat one another in public to ...

In the 2010 remake of the classic 'The Karate Kid', Jackie Chan stars as Mr. Han, a maintenance man with a hidden talent for kung fu, who mentors 12-year-old Dre Parker, played by Jaden Smith. The ...

After a push from Moms for Liberty, the Horry County School Board voted in April 2024 to ban “The Freedom Writers Diary” by Erin Gruwell from school libraries. The book was already limited to ...