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 ...

October marks Black History Month in the UK, and Ruby Bridges has shared what life was like as the first Black student to integrate into a Louisiana school in 1960 ...

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, has died at the age of 86. In 1960, Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as Ruby ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

October marks Black History Month in the UK. To mark the occasion, a campaigner has shared the story of Ruby Bridges, who broke barriers as the first Black student to attend her school ...

#SeeHer Story airs on PEOPLE.com and @PeopleTV social handles Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cokie Roberts puts the story of Ruby Bridges in contemporary context. This story originally ran on Aug. 16, 2017, in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, riots. Nov. 14, 2020 is the 60th ...