Freedom Writers Podcast
By Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers
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Podcast by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers
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Blooming Through Adversity with Kanya Sim
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Anchored in Compassion with Donald McFee
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Finding the Strength to Be You w/ Tanya Payne
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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From Bullied to Brave with Calvin Williams III
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Writing Her Way Out with Madaline Hentz
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Using Empathy as a Superpower w/ Tye Leggins
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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From Adversity to Achievement with Trayvon Carter
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Finding Your Voice with Shanita Jones
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May 22, 2024 |
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Breaking the Stigma with Sue Ellen Alpizar
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Commanding Respect and Defying Expectations with Shanate Jones
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Championing Change with Latilla Cain
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Rising Above: Carlos Barragan's Journey from Tagging to Triumph
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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From Caricature to Character with Melvin Logan
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Discovering Hope with Mauricio Antonio "Tony" Becerra
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Defining Resilience with Narada Comans
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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#106: "Reimagining Education" with Dr. Robert Alsop
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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#105: "Turning Stigmas into Strength" w/ Dr. Freda and Jayden Braddock
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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#104: Disability Pride Month w/ Jasmine Matthews & Nare Garibyan
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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#103: Celebrating Pride Month
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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#102: Celebrating Father's Day w/ Freedom Writers Carlos Barragan & Melvin Logan
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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#101: Lessons from the Stage & Screen w/ Tony-Award Winner John Benjamin Hickey
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May 31, 2023 |
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#100: "And Tango Makes Three" Beyond the Ban w/ Dr. Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
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May 17, 2023 |
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#99: Unbreakable Threads w/ Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel & Jody Savin
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May 03, 2023 |
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#98: Reflecting on the Cambodian Genocide w/ Loung Ung
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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#97: Embracing Survival after the Rwandan Genocide w/ Dydine Umunyana-Anderson
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#96: Young Playwrights Ukraine w/ Laura Cahill, Uliana Klimchuk, & Alex Feldman
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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#95: Women's History Month
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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#94: Celebrating Black History Month
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#93: Powering Education in Ukraine w/ Katya Yarotskaya
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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#92: Live to Tell w/ Edie Mermelstein
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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#91: My Flag Has No Country w/ Nyaz Burhan & Mic Wegmann
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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#90: They Are My Pronouns w/ Samuel DePace
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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#89: Ukraine Needs You w/ Lenny Shteynberg
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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#88: Finding Your Vision & Your Voice w/ Dr. Tiffany Lopez
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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#87 How to Deal with Bullying feat. Krish Sharma & Sam Norwood
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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#86 Speaking My Mother Tongue w/ Lucas Hammeken & Torbjørn Ydegaard
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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#85: Maori Misunderstood with Meredith & Casey Akuhata-Brown
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Special Episode: Remembering Alexi Rodriguez
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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#83: "My Two Dads" w/ Dear Freedom Writer Student Author Kyan
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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#82: Dear Freedom Writer Student Author Reflections
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May 24, 2022 |
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#81: Teacher Appreciation Week
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May 10, 2022 |
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#80: Two Worlds w/ Jill & Amnon Damti
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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#79: Dear Freedom Writer Symposium Panels
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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#78: Dear Freedom Writer Student Authors - Becoming Authors
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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#77: Writing Dear Freedom Writer w/ Original Freedom Writers
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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#76: Georgie Smith - A Sense of Home
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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#75: Tresor Rusesabagina
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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#74: Kate Nash - An Outsider's Perspective
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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#73: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day (w/ Freedom Writer Teacher Candace Houle)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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#72: Temple Grandin - The Autism Spectrum
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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#71: Letters to Strangers with Diana Chao
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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#70: Remembering Matthew Shepard w/ LGBTQ Activist Judy Shepard
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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#69: Chris Levinson: Letters From My Father
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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#68: Scarlett Lewis: Choosing Love After the Sandy Hook Shooting
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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#67: Anna Quindlen
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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#66: #StopAAPIHate
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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#65: Esther Wojcicki: Changing Online Learning and Tract.app
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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#64: Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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#FreeRusesabagina
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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COVID-19 Special Episode 6: Healing From Hurting 2
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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COVID-19 Special Episode 5: Healing From Hurting
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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COVID-19 Special Episode 4: In the Halls of Congress (w/ Congressman Steny Hoyer)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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COVID-19 Special Episode 3: On the Bright Side (w/ Steve Hartman)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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COVID-19 Special Episode 2: In the Field (w/ CNN's Gary Tuchman)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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COVID-19 Special Episode 1: On the Front Lines (w/ Freedom Writers Calvin Vanderhoff & Norma Bravo)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Danny DeVito: Sharing Success and Empowering Everyone
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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The Legacy of the Armenian Genocide w/ Nare Garibyan
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Tess Holliday: #EffYourBeautyStandards
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Patrick Dempsey: Dealing With Dyslexia
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Democracy (In One Podcast or Less) w/ David Litt
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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#BlackLivesMatter w/ Original Freedom Writers Tye and Shanate
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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The State of Education w/ California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Esther Wojcicki: TRICKs for Raising Successful People
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Jane Elliott: How Discrimination Feels
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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From Playing Miep Gies to Disney's Ursula w/ Pat Carroll
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Steal a Pencil for Me: The Power of the Pencil w/ Margrit Polak
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Jinahie: How to Express Your True Self Through Spoken Word
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Gary Soto: Using Words to Bring Others Out of the Shadows
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Rosalind Wiseman: Mean Girls, Masterminds, and the Realities of Adolescence
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Learning to Smile Again After Trauma, with Mohamed Sidibay
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Connie Chung: Journalism and the Art of Seeking Truth
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Freedom Writers Round-Table: Why People Connect to Gritty Stories
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Freedom Writer 20/20 Part V: Passing the Torch to the Next Generation
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Sep 07, 2019 |
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Freedom Writer 20/20 Part IV: The Power of Storytelling to Heal Hearts
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Freedom Writer 20/20 Part III: Connecting the Dots from the Past and the Present
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Freedom Writer 20/20 Part II: Recreating the Magic of Room 203
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Freedom Writer 20/20 Part I: Coming Back to Write Twenty New Stories
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Introducing Freedom Writer 20/20
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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#39 Dr. Carl Cohn: The Power of Listening in Effective Leadership
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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#38 Liz Murray: Homeless to Harvard
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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#37 Isha Sesay: How To Help Girls Understand Their Power
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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#36 Wes Moore: Why Decisions Determine Destiny
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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#35 Anne Frank: A Glimpse into the Secret Annex
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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#34 Antwone Fisher: How to Instill Hope in All Children with Rick Miller
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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#33 Daniel Ellsberg: What the Pentagon Papers Teach Us About Accountability
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May 20, 2019 |
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#32 Period. End of Sentence: Empowered Women Empower Women
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May 06, 2019 |
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#31 How to Understand Young People and Their Stories
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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#30 After Columbine: How to Create a Culture of Connection in Schools with Darrell Scott
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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#29 Rebuilding Rwanda: How to Heal After a Genocide
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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#28 Jack Horner: How to Embrace Dyslexia
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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#27 Dolores Huerta: ¡Sí, Se Puede! - How to Start A Movement
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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#26 Parkland Students: Overcoming Tragedy With Empathy
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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#25 Don Hahn: How Humans Communicate Meaning
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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#24 Homeboy Industries: How to Live With Extravagant Tenderness with Father Greg Boyle
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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#23 Schindler’s List 25th Anniversary: How Holocaust Education is Changing the World
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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#22 Dr. Pedro Noguera: Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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#21 "From Hate to Hope" - How a Neo-Nazi Became an Advocate for Equality with Tim Zaal
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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#20 Sexual Abuse Survivors: "You Are Not Alone"
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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#19 Cesar Millan: The Four Energies of Happiness
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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#18 How to Create a Sphere of Safety: Suicide Prevention with Bob Ezrin
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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#17 Genocide Survivors: Why These Stories Must Be Told
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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#16 The Freedom Writers Diary: How the "Little Book That Could" Became a Bestseller
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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#15 Sudanese Genocide: Trying to Make Sense of Senseless Violence
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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#14 How Freedom Writers Changed My Path with Actress-Turned-Activist, April Hernandez-Castillo
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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#13 Surviving a Hate Crime, with LGBT Activist Matthew Boger
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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#12 Growing Up Under Apartheid
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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#11 Anne Frank's Step-Sister: Becoming a Link in the Chain of History with Eva Schloss
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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#10 Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works (and How It Doesn't) with David Goodman
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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#9 How to Find Your Creative Spark with Kathy Eldon
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May 28, 2018 |
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#8 Tony Danza: "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had"
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May 21, 2018 |
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#7 Richard LaGravenese: On Making "Freedom Writers"
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May 14, 2018 |
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#6 Little Rock Nine: Integrating the First High School in America with Dr. Terrence Roberts
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May 07, 2018 |
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#5 Zlata Filipovic: The Bosnian Genocide and How Labels Can Lead to Destruction
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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#4 Andrew Carroll: Discovering the Humanity in History
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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#3 Freedom Rides: How to Get Into "Good Trouble" (w/ Jim Zwerg and Congressman John Lewis)
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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#2 Patrick Kennedy: Reframing Mental Health and Addiction
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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#1 The Holocaust: How to Learn from the Past to Improve the Future with Renee and Klaire Firestone
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Apr 04, 2018 |