K-12 Education

Airing on March 28th at 8pm on PBS SoCal, the new documentary film Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart follows Southern California teacher and speaker Erin Gruwell’s journey to change the lives of her students.  

In his State of the Union Address, Trump neglected to speak on the topic of education. Louis Freedberg, from EdSource said, “Trump has had no success in advancing that agenda during his first two years in the White House.” 

Calling the inspiring new movie based on his life “powerful,” The Today Show’s Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Craig Melvin welcomed childhood abuse survivor and pioneering human resources executive Steve Pemberton to the show. Against a backdrop of clips from the film, which is based on his best-selling memoir of the same name, Pemberton shared highlights of his life story growing up in foster care, overcoming adversity and turning tragedy into triumph. 

Founder of Comfort Cases, APB speaker Rob Scheer recently released the new book A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time about his difficult childhood in the foster care system and how he created his forever family.

APB speakers Wes Moore and Geoffrey Canada have been named some of the most influential people in New York’s nonprofit sector by City & State New York.

Education advocate and APB speaker Geoffrey Canada appeared on Luke Cage, Netflix's new hit show about the evolution of a man with super strength and unbreakable skin as he fights to protect his city of Harlem, New York. 

On September 18th, APB's Wil Haygood will release his highly anticipated new book, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing. A story about underdogs, poverty, triumph and togetherness, Tigerland focuses on the unification of a racially divided city and students striving to honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy.

Wil Haygood, New York Times best-selling author of The Butler and Showdown will be presenting his much-anticipated new book, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing to incoming first year Miami University (Ohio) students weeks in advance of its national release.

A Chance in the World, the highly anticipated new movie inspired by Steve Pemberton's acclaimed memoir, is releasing May 30th. In addition to the feature, at select showings moviegoers will have the opportunity to enjoy a live panel discussion simulcast with Pemberton, John Sykes (Pemberton’s former guardian and high school mentor), and representatives from Adoption Exchange, Love Without Boundaries and The Felix Organization. Fathom Events will be hosting the nationwide screenings.

A spinoff of the beloved NOVA television program, PBS’s NOVA Wonders is a six-part series in which each episode tackles different aspects of science. Revolutionary in its presentation, the majority of the cast is made up of women, including APB’s own big data expert, Dr. Talithia Williams. Showing kids the beauty of the science and STEM fields, Williams and NOVA have the same mission: to illustrate how to use science to answer the “big” questions about the world.