Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruby Bridges is looking back on becoming a pivotal part of the civil rights movement in the American South. Bridges, now 69, ...

When an 8-year-old New Canaan resident was called a racial slur at an incident in Mead Park, he wrote a letter to civil right icon Ruby Bridges asking if she would come speak with students and adults ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

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 ...

"Ruby walked so that I could run. I run so that you can fly." Kodjo Wilder, assistant principal at Cascade Middle School, became emotional as he addressed the crowd of hundreds of Bethel School ...