A hearing will start Tuesday on moving juvenile offenders out of the Angola prison in Louisiana. They were supposed to be housed there only until April, but are still there.

One year after a winter storm left residents in Jackson without water for up to a month, the city is receiving millions of federal dollars. But the funds won't be enough to fix the aging system.

The state of Louisiana has granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Creole man who refused to leave a "whites only" train car in 1892. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nine states and dozens of cities passed legislation outlawing discrimination against a Black person's hairstyle. Many Black women say they feel pressure to change their hair from its natural state.

U.S. Catholic bishops advise followers to avoid Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine — calling it morally compromised. Parishioners in New Orleans are figuring out how to respond faithfully.