On the C-SPAN Networks: Erin Gruwell is a Founder and President for the Freedom Writers Foundation with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Speech.

It's because this film fails to earn what Gruwell earned in real life ... and their journals became the book The Freedom Writers Diary, on which this film is based. That remarkable success ...

On Wednesday, Gruwell, who inspired Oscar winner Hilary Swank’s role as a teacher in the 2007 movie Freedom Writers, told 5,000 students and teachers at the Colorado Convention Center about her ...

The Freedom Writers -- Gruwell’s 150 students who named themselves for the civil rights group -- included Caucasian and middle-class students, the critics point out. One was the popular football ...

When Hollywood wanted to make a movie of “The Freedom Writers Diary” – a book of searing, often heartbreaking journal entries that high school teacher Erin Gruwell wrote with her Los Angeles ...

There’s no doubt that Erin Gruwell, the teacher behind The Freedom Writers Diary, is worthy of having her name included on that inspirational list. Freedom Writers tells her story. Erin Gruwell ...

Freedom Writers (opening January 5 throughout San Diego) is based on the true story of Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell and the at-risk students she taught in room 203. Their success ...

In this case, because the story is based on the real-life Erin Gruwell and her real-life class. More crucially, “Freedom Writers,” initially at least, paints such a hopeless picture of ...

Gruwell's students christen themselves the "Freedom Writers," after learning about the civil rights movement. The real Freedom Writers' methods and messages are inspirational, certainly — even ...

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 ...