civil rights

The investigation comes amid a growing number of disturbing headlines and lawsuits against the department over the treatment of detainees, including strip-searching a grandmother.

At 82-years-old, Claudette Colvin finally has a clean record from a 1955 juvenile arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on an Alabama bus, nine months before Rosa Parks did.

The story of the civil rights movement in Louisiana comes alive thanks to the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail.