Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her "best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights icon and activist Ruby Bridges is offering her wisdom to a new generation with her book “Dear Ruby, Hear our Hearts.” ...

*A children’s book about Ruby Bridges integrating a New Orleans school has been labeled “critical race theory” by conservative parents in Tennessee, who claim that its portrayal of an angry white ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...

“The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world.” Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ ...

This story was originally published in 2022. For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. To get to school in the morning, Ruby Bridges walked through a crowd of hateful people shouting ...

Twenty-five students aged four to 12 attended a read-aloud of Ruby Bridges’ newest children’s book titled “Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts,” a compilation of letters that she had received from young ...