Erin Gruwell challenges her high school students ... lives and understand the difficulties they experience daily. "Freedom Writers" is based on the real diaries of these Long Beach students ...

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 ...

Gruwell also encouraged her students to write by composing journals. Her students became known as Freedom Writers in reference to the Freedom Riders who rode interstate buses to the South to ...

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 ...

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The success story of English teacher Erin Gruwell (Swank) and her students in Room 203 of Long Beach High School is true. Yet when placed in the hands of writer/director LaGravenese, it becomes ...

Erin Gruwell, founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation and the subject of the 2007 movie “Freedom Writers” starring Hillary Swank, gave a talk via Zoom on Thursday, April 6 to students gathered in ...

Nija Maxwell, Jalen Waters, and Anthony Miley are among the student members of the Viking Freedom Writers. They meet regularly with Symonette in a small classroom at Miami Norland Senior High ...

A Crete resident took issue with the book, which English teacher Paul Smith has taught for years -- first at Lincoln Southeast then at Crete -- as a Freedom Writer ...