This is the first story in our series chronicling the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In November 1960, three 6-year-old Black girls climbed 18 steps into history, forever changing the face ...

GLENDALE — At 98, Sister Theresa McCombe still remembers her first-grade classroom at St. Pancras School, which she recalled always smelled of pickles from a nearby factory, and the “exceptional” ...

Born in 1948, McMahon would have been 12-years-old in 1960 when federal marshals escorted 6-year-old Ruby Bridges into a whites-only elementary school through a crowd of furious white protestors.