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.

A Pennsylvania woman is surprised that she has received death threats after she posted a video that showed her urinating on an American flag.

Civil rights advocates claim one Louisiana court system mandates stiffer punishments for Spanish speaking defendants.

Six former Iberia Parish Deputies previously pleaded guilty to civil rights violations of prisoners and today they were joined by Jason Comeaux and David Hines

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The Bloody Sunday commemoration continues today with a series of events in Selma before a group retraces the steps that helped secure equal voting rights 50 years ago. Thousands gathered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge Saturday to hear speeches from leaders including President Barack Obama and Democratic Georgia Rep...

James Degorski accused a Cook County Jail guard of punching him and breaking his cheekbone and eye socket in 2002, just after his arrest in the murder.

A Tennessee county commissioner posted this image to Facebook. A U.S. attorney is suggesting that such postings could be considered civil rights violations. What do you think?