The Ruby Bridges Reading Festival brought children book authors from all over the country to Memphis. The authors said powerful stories and historic moments shouldn’t be hidden from children.

Nearly 65 years later, that bond is as strong as ever between Bridges and retired teacher Barbara Henry. "She’s like another mom to me," Bridges said on TODAY on Feb. 18.

WATCH: Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges reflects on book bannings, as her own work has faced censorship in some schools. "I think that's ridiculous. I mean, most of my books have been banned. … ...

Conservative activists known for banning books in school libraries now have set their sights on the Scholastic Book Fair. Scholastic is the world’s largest publisher and distributer of children’s ...

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Gamma Omicron Omega Chapter is hosting its Fashionetta Promising Pearls Gala this Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Oak Crossing Event Center in Whitehouse.

A Tennessee Moms for Liberty chapter, for instance, filed a complaint in 2021 alleging that texts about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ’s March on Washington and Ruby Bridges’ autobiography ...

Bridges's new picture book, illustrated by John Jay Cabuay, Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts (Scholastic, Jan.), includes real letters the activist received from children and supplies her responses to ...

This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans ...

Jennifer Cortez is cofounder of One WillCo, a Tennessee parent group that successfully fought against removing Ruby Bridges from schools. “We think first-rate education means access to books and ...

In her new children's book, I Am Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges tells the story of how she was the first black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school – through the ...