A substitute custodian was arrested at Ruby Bridges Elementary School on July 1 after a student reported to her parents that ...

The janitor was booked into Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of public intoxication and annoying or molesting a victim under the ...

During a recent House hearing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon was schooled by Democrat Rep. Jahana Hayes over racism.

As federal troops occupy Los Angeles, political leaders invoke civil rights history—but their comparisons conceal more than ...

Gail Etienne, Leona Tate, and Tessie Prevost's story was overshadowed for decades. Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary brings new urgency to their unfinished work.

Bridges will read from her latest work, Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher, which pays tribute to Barbara Henry, the only teacher who stood by her during the 1960 desegregation crisis. The book ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State Long Beach on Wednesday, March 19.

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first grader in November 1960 when she had to be escorted by federal marshals as the first Black student in her all-white public elementary school in New Orleans.

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on her experiences as a young girl integrating an all-white school, ...

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on her experiences as a young girl integrating an all-white school ...

As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black-and-white footage of angry white mobs began to play. The images showed the six-year-old Bridges being escorted by U.S.

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...