In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...

Bridges is also the author of four books, some of which have been targeted by critics an inappropriate for schools. Last year ...

Directed by Linda Haston, Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story was written in 2021 by Natalia Temesgen, an associate professor of Creative Writing at Columbus State University and a writer ...

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

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story,” written by Natalia Temesgen.

To dive deeper into Ruby Bridges’ incredible story, students can watch the Disney movie Ruby Bridges (1998), which is rated TV-PG. The film offers a powerful and age-appropriate portrayal of ...