Exclusive: Treda Collier Dickenman “is both resilient and extraordinary in her courageousness,” attorney Rebecca Brazzano ...
We do not protect children, adolescents, or students by denying them access to books. We harm them, and our country, writes a ...
enslaved and free people of color. They are the second oldest order of Black nuns in the nation. On Nov. 14, 1960, four little girls by the name of Ruby Bridges, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and ...
Ruby Bridges, Sonia Sotomayor, and Nelson Mandela — stories that educate and inspire — are being stripped from classroom lessons. More than half of U.S. students are students of color ...
Ruby Bridges. "And I'm like, 'She was little, just like you guys. And just imagine how scared she was walking into a classroom with nobody else the same color as her skin,'" Partridge said.
The Department of Education's efforts to keep racial diversity out of schools has left educators wondering how and when to ...
Two were key to America’s story of desegregation: Ruby Bridges, who broke the color barrier in the public schools of New Orleans at age 6, and Claudette Colvin, who was 15 when she refused to ...
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin ... one of the books banned in Florida was the story of Ruby Bridges, who integrated an elementary school in New Orleans ...
First, for her role as Ruby in the Civil War epic "Cold Mountain ... she played a makeup mogul named Fabiella Du Mont in "Material Girls." Bridges won an Oscar for his performance in "Crazy ...