Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend integrated schools in the south, is celebrating her 64th birthday this weekend. At just the age of six, Bridges walked into an all-white school on ...

Selena Gomez is putting her 179 million-strong Instagram following to good use. The singer, 27, has been lending her account – the sixth most-followed on the social media platform – to prominent Black ...

"The Hits Just Keep On Comin’" is a single from their Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025 album, with a clip starring ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader ...

“Now, Ruby,” Lucille Bridges told her daughter on Nov. 14, 1960, “you’re going to a new school today, and you better behave.” On that day, flanked by U.S. marshals, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges reported ...

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Selena Gomez is continuing the charge to highlight Black voices on social media. For the past week, she's been turning over her Instagram account to Black actors, activists, professors, writers and ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. “On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges?’ And I ...

Sixty years ago, Ruby Bridges walked to school escorted by four federal marshals as a White mob hurled insults at her. Bridges, just 6 years old on November 14, 1960, was set to begin first grade at ...

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 ...

Deputy U.S. marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November 1960. (AP) Analysis by Philip Bump I had often wondered how Ruby Bridges felt in ...