Enter 24-year-old white rookie teacher Erin Gruwell ... "Freedom Writers" is based on the real diaries of these Long Beach students after the L.A. riots. This is a must-see movie.

Set in the early 1990s in the Los Angeles area, "Freedom Writers" is a tribute to teacher Erin Gruwell, who when confronted with dangerous minds in this blackboard jungle, stands and delivers so ...

Erin Gruwell, the teacher who inspired the 2007 film "Freedom Writers," challenged El Pasoans to become more engaged. News Sports Business Opinion Entertainment Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

Erin Gruwell, founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation, addresses students at Moreland Notre Dame School in an assembly Wednesday. A former teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach ...

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 ...

Erin Gruwell, a former English teacher whose story of working with troubled students in a California high school was the basis of the 2007 film "Freedom Writers," will speak at Stockton University ...

Freedom Writers 2007, PG-13, 123 min. Directed by Richard LaGravenese. Starring Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Lee Hernandez, Jason Finn.

She started the Viking Freedom Writers, named for the high school’s mascot. She’s now taught more than 3,000 students these principles. Some have gone on to become professional writers.

Seven students’ stories are going from the classroom to the “Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation” — a book that is distributed worldwide.

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 ...