Just hours before the scheduled opening of The Laramie Project at Cesar Chavez High School, the school’s administration postponed the production due to the "seriousness of the play's content." ...
It was a crime that shocked the world: A young university student from Wyoming, Matthew Shepard was killed in a hate crime. The death of the 21-year-old in Laramie, Wyoming was one of America’s ...
In 2009, then-President Barack Obama enacted the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which broadened federal hate crime law to include gender, gender identity ...
18 (UPI) --In the first verdict under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes ... Daqua Lameek Ritter was convicted for the hate crime murder, a federal firearms count and one obstruction ...