This is the one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Published in 1999, the book "The Freedom Writers Diary" is a compilation of the students' journal entries.

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

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

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 ...

Rise Indy's Freedom Readers program promotes literacy in Indianapolis schools, teaching parents the science of reading and making learning fun for kids. 73° Make wishtv.com your home page ...

The Nation spoke with the author No Fault, a genre-bending examination of marriage and divorce that is one-part cultural history and one-part memoir. Haley Mlotek. Marriage isn’t what it used to ...

“It’s like jumping in a sketchy van and ripping away to freedom,” the website says. Tome also is host of a podcast called “The Aggressive Life.” So of course, he’d be obsessed with the movie Die Hard.

The next phase of Cusk’s writing career was initiated by the 2012 memoir Aftermath, about her divorce from her second husband, Adrian Clarke. “Nothing belongs to me any more. I have become an ...

On this Teacher's Day, it's a great moment to acknowledge the significant role that educators play in shaping our lives. Through their guidance, commitment, and passion, teachers help mold our ...

In this file photo, a buyer peruses the shelves at a Horry County book sale. After a push from Moms for Liberty, the Horry County School Board voted in April 2024 to ban “The Freedom Writers ...

The thing that makes divorce memoirs so compelling is knowing what an ongoing calamity it is to attempt to merge two gargantuan interiorities. But such is our condition, living as we do in self ...