When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

Whether it’s black-and-white photos of Arkansas’ Little Rock Nine or Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of New Orleans ...

I remember looking into the classroom, and all I saw were empty desks, and I thought, ‘Well, my mom brought me to school too ...

Ruby Cunningham Bridges, 91, left us to go to her Heavenly Home on Saturday, February, 1, 2025. Her family will receive ...

This journey begins in Africa, a continent made up of 54 countries mostly occupied by the indigenous people of dark-skinned ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

Later this month, she’ll play the lead in “Look Forward,” the story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate the Louisiana school system in 1960. Prime Stage Theatre will stage ...

Tribune Facebook page that Ruby Bridges would be speaking at Berry College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I immediately ...

Hundreds of Black student union members in San Diego Unified gathered Monday to mark the start of Black History Month.