Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Responds to Meme Showing Kamala Harris Walking with Her Shadow It’s been 60 years this month since Ruby Bridges first stepped into William Franz Elementary School, following a court ruling enforcing desegregation of the district. Now Bridges is commemorating the anniversary with a new book, This Is Your Time, which is a letter to young people. She also hopes to inspire them “to pick up the torch,” she says. “We all have a part in making this country that we call the United States live up to its name.” Click here to read the full article...
The story you haven’t heard about that viral image of Kamala Harris and Ruby Bridges Gordon Jones rattles off, in an almost perfunctory tone, the many things that he has been in life: a boat captain. A private pilot. A marketing representative for Xerox in Houston. A caregiver, sadly, for his dying father in Sacramento. Jones doesn’t yet have a name for his newest thing. What he does have, though, is a story — one that he tends to tell from the middle, starting on the Saturday morning when it became clear that Joe Biden would be our next president....
Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges’ New Book Published by Delacorte Press A now-viral illustration depicts Vice President-elect Kamala Harris walking next to a wall with her shadow transformed into Ruby Bridges’ silhouette from Rockwell’s painting. The drawing, created by San Francisco-based artist Bria Goeller, is being shared widely on social, including by Bridges herself. Click here to read the full article
Viral image of Kamala Harris created by recent Emory University grad The art piece features an image of Harris and a silhouette of activist Ruby Bridges as a child Click here to read the full article
The Kamala Harris-Ruby Bridges Meme Is Powerful and Polarizing A meme of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris juxtaposed against the silhouette of an elementary-age Ruby Bridges has understandably gone viral after history was made last Saturday. For many people, the meme represents the powerful contributions of Black girls and Black women to our very concept of freedom and democracy. Others, however, question the appropriateness of linking the two. Click here to read the full article
