Tag Archives: Africa

When all that’s left is fear and hate

By Mark | August 23, 2018

Since news broke a few days ago that the President’s former personal attorney had pled guilty to numerous felonies, naming the President himself as a co-conspirator, things haven’t been looking so good for the Trump administration. And Donald Trump has responded just like the organized crime boss that we know him to be, talking openly […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Africanisation of the plane, Afriforum, anti-immigrant, apartheid, arming teachers, Barack Obama, Betsy DeVos, Civil War, co-conspirator, conspiracy theory, David Duke, Donald Trump, flipping, FOX News, guns in schools, hope, incels, Ku Klux Klan, Mike Peinovich, Mike Pompeo, Mollie Tibbetts, MS-13, murder, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Omarosa Manigault Newman, optimism, Patrick Gaspard, race baiting, race war, racial animus, racism, rats, Richard Nixon, Rudy Giuliani, South Africa, tax cuts, tax reform, the canary in the cole mine, turning state's evidence, unindicted co-conspirator, white genocide, white nationalism | 24 Comments

Donald Trump didn’t drain the swamp, but he’s filling the shithole

By Mark | January 11, 2018

My intention was to spend my time this evening researching changes to the Medicaid program announced today by the Trump administration that will give states the ability to refuse Medicaid to any individual who is not either working, going to school, acting as caregiver, or participating in some sanctioned form of “community engagement”. But, then, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigration, border security, border wall, Central Park Five, Dick Durbin, Donald Trump, El Salvador, FOX News, Haiti, immigration, Joe Arpaio, Medicaid, racism, Tucker Carlson | 194 Comments

Bulb Records’ Pete Larson reemerges in Kenya with a renewed purpose… to help document and preserve the Nyatiti

By Mark | June 27, 2017

My old friend and former bandmate, Pete Larson, moved to Kenya a few years back to oversee a number of public health related research projects. And, while there, he fell in love with the country’s culture and music. Now, like a good academic, he’s doing his best to document and preserve what he can, starting […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged academic research, Barack Obama, Biggie Smalls, Boaz Jagingo, Bulb Records, Colin Crowley, cultural traditions, curses, Dagoretti Records, Dave Sharp, Dodo, drinking, Egypt, erections, folks songs, goat brain soup, Greece, Hillary Clinton, hip hop, impotence, iron roofs, Japan, Kaboge Chagala, Kenge Kenge Sound System, Kenya, Kenyatta University, Kikuyu, Lake Victoria, Luo, lyre, musical instruments, Nairobi, Nairobi University, Ndio Sasa, Nyatiti, Nyatiti Stories, Obokano, Oduor Nyagweno, Oduor Nyagweno and the Nyatiti Attack, Orutu, Peter Larson, poetry, praise songs, rap, rap battles, Rapasa, sex, shamisen, Siaya, Sick Trees, stringed instruments, Swahili, Tomo Tsukahara, tribalism, Tupac, vernacular, violin, witchcraft, world music | 9 Comments

The ONE Campaign’s caravan to stop in Ypsilanti to discuss putting and end to global poverty

By Mark | September 13, 2016

On Wednesday evening, representatives from the ONE Vote ‘16 Caravan will be pulling into Ypsilanti’s Cultivate Coffee and Tap House and engaging local voters in a discussion about global poverty and how critical it is that our elected leaders take the problem seriously. Following is my discussion with Juliet Vedral, the U.S./Canada Press Secretary for […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2016, Bono, bounce houses, call to action, caravans, Cultivate Coffee and Tap House, debates, Democratic National COnvention, disease, Donald Trump, ebola, elections, foreign policy, gender inequality, Hillary Clinton, HIV, inequality, Juliet Vedra, national security, ONE, ONE Vote, poverty, race and poverty, Republican National Convention, sexism, terrorism, virtual reality | 4 Comments

On the upcoming “Saturday Six Pack with Mark Maynard”…. episode four preview

By Mark | February 5, 2015

I won’t bore you with the background. Now that we’re about a month in, I suppose most of you know that I’ve got a Saturday evening radio program on Ypsilanti’s AM 1700, during which I invite people into the studio to share a six pack with me, and take calls from strangers, right? Well, if […]