Black History Month gives us another opportunity to invest in our young people, writes Lit Louisiana columnist Fatima Shaik.

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

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ... Ten years after Bridges and three other girls became the first black children to attend New Orleans public school, more ...

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.

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

The parties reached a settlement in February 1959. The Harlem 9’s children would not enroll in the schools for which they were zoned. Nor would they be able to engage in “open choice” – the parents’ ...