Civil rights activist and author Ruby Bridges will speak in Madison next month, focusing on topics of equality, education and community, the Wisconsin Union Directorate announced Tuesday.

Outer Banks Voice  Mardis Gras with Ruby Bridges—which takes place from 6:00-9:30 p.m. at Seven Sounds Brewing Company in Downtown Elizabeth City—is a one-night-only benefit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Nov. 14 marks 65 years since Ruby Bridges made history by becoming the first Black child to integrate an all-White elementary ...

Sometimes, the truth is just as powerful as fiction. Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges ...

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 ...

Saniya Lavelle has been acting for the past three years. But up to now, the 13-year-old Pittsburgh resident has only portrayed fictional characters. Later this month, she’ll play the lead in “Look ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...

The University held the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who, at the ...

Anybody who spent enough time in elementary school has heard of the Mayflower, the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address. Anybody who ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A former Safe Routes to School coordinator says she was fired for wearing a Ruby Bridges t-shirt. In a complaint filed last week in federal court, former employee Beth Schmidt ...

Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in New Orleans in what became a symbol of opposition to segregation, ...