“Today our country lost a hero," Ruby Bridges wrote of her mother on Instagram Tuesday.

Bernie Sanders  78 Ruby Bridges  65 Big Boy  50 David Arquette  48 Larenz Tate  44 Pink  40 Wiz Khalifa  32

Cartoonist Glenn McCoy who caught heat Tuesday for depicting U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as Ruby Bridges -- the African-American girl in Norman Rockwell's southern school desegregation painting "The Problem We All Live With" -- explained his controversial decision Wednesday.

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Ruby Bridges (60), Latrell Sprewell (44), David Arquette (43), Larenz Tate (39), Pink (35), Wiz Khalifa (27)