For more than a decade, For The Record has built one of Los Angeles theatre's most devoted followings through immersive productions that transform beloved films and soundtracks into communal ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges was in Memphis on Saturday, sharing her love for literacy at the National Civil Rights Museum.
Was there a more poignant photo of America at 250 years old than the one Reuters captured of a young Black woman on a Washington commuter train surrounded by white nationalists with covered faces? The ...
Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist by training and a storyteller by inclination whose scores of books and articles transported readers into the minds of children, opening new vistas on issues as ...
Robert Coles, an eminent child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard professor who came to wide renown documenting social and political unrest and its impact on young people, the ...
His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard. By Douglas Martin See more of our ...
Robert Coles — psychiatrist and poet, social historian and social critic, Christian existentialist and intellectual entrepreneur — has died. He was 97. He died Thursday at a hospice center in Lincoln, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A former Safe Routes to School coordinator says she was fired for wearing a Ruby Bridges t-shirt. In a complaint filed last week in federal court, former employee Beth Schmidt ...
Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is unbowed, her gaze steady despite the racist graffiti creeping into the frame of the iconic image. The painting — a true-to-life illustration of the fight to integrate New ...
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 was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...