When it opened in 2022, Allegory’s first concept menu, dubbed “Down the Rabbit Hole,” was inspired by both Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” as well as the life of civil rights ...

Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend integrated schools in the south, is celebrating her 64th birthday this weekend. At just the age of six, Bridges walked into an all-white school on ...

At the age of 6, Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her first day at the school was on Nov. 14, 1960.

At the age of 6, Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her first day at the school was on Nov. 14, 1960.

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges was among a few Black students in New Orleans who integrated what were then all-white schools. As a 6-year-old, she walked to school with U.S. Marshals guarding her.

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges put on a starched dress and new shoes and walked, accompanied by four U.S. Marshals through a torrent of hate to get to school.

Inside Oakland’s African American Museum and Library on Nov. 4, 2023, was the Black Doll Festival, organized by the American Black Beauty Doll Association, filled with over a dozen vendors and doll ...

Ruby Bridges was born on Sept. 8, 1954, which coincidentally was the same year in which the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation in public schools.