ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Pinellas County school committee voted unanimously Monday to continue the use of the movie “Ruby Bridges” in classrooms after a parent filed a formal objection. “Thrilled,” ...

A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie's use of slurs and argued ...

KSHB 41 reporter Alyssa Jackson has covered Frank Rushton Elementary School's push for Ruby Bridges to come to Kansas and have a commemorative day in her honor. Share your story idea with Alyssa.

All 6-year-old Ruby Bridges wanted was a friend when she walked into William Frantz Elementary in 1960 as the first Black child to desegregate the New Orleans school, flanked by four federal marshals ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...

Recently New Orleans celebrated the 60th anniversary of desegregation in its public schools. The occasion was marked throughout the city, nowhere more poignantly than at Akili Academy, the school that ...