AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF)-Saturday morning the cast of the Augusta Junior Players production of “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges” took a walk to put themselves in her shoes. On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

VERY SPECIAL EVENT. THEY GOT PLACES FOR YOU 65 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER A SIX YEAR OLD GIRL WALKED INTO A SCHOOL IN NEW ORLEANS AND BECAME THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT TO INTEGRATE AN ALL WHITE SCHOOL IN THE ...

The Yale and New Haven communities this month will commemorate the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during a series of events on campus and beyond, including a public ...

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 Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to enter a formerly all-White ...

Ruby Bridges’ legacy as a civil rights activist began when she was 6 years old and helped desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. Tyler Essary / TODAY Illustration / ...

Sixty-five years to the day after a 6-year-old girl walked into a school in New Orleans and became the first Black student to integrate an all-white school in the south, the legacy of Ruby Bridges ...