Thursday, November 14, 2024

Erin Gruwell: The Freedom Writers

May 23, 2011 by  
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Erin Gruwell is an educator and president of ‘The Freedom Writers Foundation’. When Erin landed her first job at Wilson High School in Long Beach, CA, she discovered many of her students had been written off by the education system and deemed ‘unteachable’.

Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV

January 25, 2011 by  
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In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV infections are more prevalent and doctors scarcer than anywhere else in the world. With a lack of medical professionals, Mitchell Besser enlisted the help of his patients to create mothers2mothers, an extraordinary network of HIV-positive women whose support for each other is changing and saving lives.

Groundhog Day

June 23, 2007 by  
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When insomnia has me reaching for a thick book (or worse) making custard to eat with peaches in mango juice at midnight, I know in my experience it’s really going to be a long day! So long infact that thinking of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day is