People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

Last year, a Florida school district briefly banned the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” after a parent complained its themes were ...

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

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

It was ultimately featured as one of 12 children’s letters in Bridges’ latest book, titled “Dear Ruby: Hear Our Hearts.” On ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school. Now she teaches children to get past racial differences. Although Bridges broke many barriers by attending the school, she endured ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there.

“Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts” by Ruby Bridges, illustrated by John Jay Cabuay, is a genuine testimony to the power of children. (Orchard Books) “Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts” by Ruby ...

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges ... removed their children from the building ...

Each year on Nov. 14, the foundation leads Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, an annual day of dialog to inspire students to take part in their own forms of activism. “These pages truly speak to the ...