Matthew Shepard
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‘Safe Forever’
1929-2014
Was the infamous murder of Matthew Shepard really a hate crime? Stephen Jimenez finds shocking new information.
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On Wednesday, Obama signed a new law expanding hate crime legislation. "No one in American should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love," he said, citing brutal cases like murder of Matthew Shepard. CNN
This week: an Adderall addiction memoir mixed with murder, a hate-crime victim's mother remembers, a journalist on her imprisonment in Iran, new theories on parenting, and a rallying cry for journalists.
On Monday, Obama advocated for the Defense of Marriage Act to be repealed and announced the creation of an LGBT hate crime bill named for Matthew Shepard. MSNBC