Coro Lux performs Craig Hella Johnson's concert-length oratorio Remembering Matthew Shepard in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, 27 ...

The Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office is beefing up its Hate Crimes Unit by appointing an assistant prosecutor tasked with prosecuting people accused of ethnic intimidation and other related crimes.

Anne Arundel County hired a senior project manager for its new hate crimes prevention program Monday. Nicola “Dr. Nikki” Smith-Kea will use a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to ...

On this date in history: In 1776, the Lee Resolution, which led to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was introduced in the Continental Congress. In 1864, Republican delegates meeting in Baltimore ...

The Washington National Cathedral has installed a plaque memorializing the life of Matthew Shepard, who was killed in an infamous 1998 attack that galvanized support around expanded federal hate crime ...

The Bay Area Reporter's October 29, 2009 issue saved some space on page 1 for the news that then-President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. hate crimes bill into law. The ...

One of the men who murdered gay college student Matthew Shepard in 1998 was denied a commutation of his sentence this week, the Wyoming Board of Parole has confirmed. Russell Henderson, who along with ...

A Quincy man received an 18-month prison sentence on Wednesday for committing a hate crime, federal prosecutors said. John Sullivan, 78, had previously pleaded guilty to one count of violating the ...

Wyoming Board of Parole Executive Director Margaret White confirmed the decision in a statement to The Advocate. “Mr. Henderson filed a commutation petition which the Board considered in accordance ...

A man who helped orchestrate one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history — the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in East Texas — is slated to die Wednesday over the objections of ...