Mark Maynard | Jackson

Judge Carlton Reeves, sentencing three white men to prison for the murder of a black man in Mississippi, delivers a powerful speech on the legacy of lynching

By Mark | February 15, 2015

In the early hours of June 26, 2011, 18-year old Deryl Dedmon, who had been drinking with friends, drove his pick-up truck over a man by the name of James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi, killing him. Dedmon was white. Anderson was black. Dedmon fled the scene of the crime, but, thanks to surveillance camera […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized | Also tagged 100 Years of Lynchings, A New History of Mississippi, affirmative action, Andrew Goodman, Carlton Reeves, death penalty, Deryl Dedmon, Dylan Butler, Emmett Till, Equal Justice Initiative, George W. Lee, hate crimes, Jafrica, James Cheney, John Aaron Rice, lynching, Lynching in America: Confronting the Terror of of Racial Terror, Mack Charles Parker, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi, Mississippi: An American Journey, n-word, race, race and poverty, racism, slavery, University of Michigan Law School, Vernon Dahmer, white power, Willie McGee, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America | 9 Comments

Ypsi Immigration Interview: Rob Noonan

By Mark | September 6, 2013

I was contacted a few days ago by a recent immigrant to Ypsilanti by the name of Rob Noonan. Rob and his wife, Rose, just moved here from Australia to open a traditional Chinese medicine clinic… Here’s Rob’s official immigration interview. MARK: Why Ypsi of all places? We don’t get a lot of immigrants from […]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged acupuncture, alternative health, alternative medicine, Australia, Chinese food, Chinese medicine, Colin Hay, Crocodile Dundee II, Doug Skinner, drinking songs, flip flops, immigration interview, INXS, Ireland, Irish, knives, local business, Mad Max, making friends on the internet, Mel Gibson, Men at Work, metaphysics, Michael Hutchence, Neighbours, Nick Cave, prawns, prison colonies, Rose Noonan, sausages, Shabooh Shoobah, Shadow Art Fair, shrimp, snags, taxes, the outback, thongs, vegemite, Victoria University, visas, Ypsi immigration interview | 11 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor exit interview: Casey Dixon

By Mark | October 16, 2011

He would fill my mug with beer at the Corner Brewery, and we’d exchange pleasantries, but I didn’t really know much about Casey Dixon until I conducted this interview with him several weeks after he left Ypsilanti to travel the globe. It kind of makes me think that maybe I should start focusing more on […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Casey Dixon, Corner brewery, Eastern Michigan University, evil trees, exit interviews, found art, Magic, mysticism, new age, public art, sculpture, Seattle, time travel, Water Street, weird stuff, wolf temple, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 25 Comments

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Judge Carlton Reeves, sentencing three white men to prison for the murder of a black man in Mississippi, delivers a powerful speech on the legacy of lynching

Ypsi Immigration Interview: Rob Noonan

Ypsi/Arbor exit interview: Casey Dixon

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