Mark Maynard | murder

Angela Davis to commemorate MLK Day at U-M with a speech on the threat of the prison industrial complex

By Mark | January 20, 2013

Activist, educator and author Angela Davis will be in Ann Arbor on Monday, delivering a lecture titled “Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream.” Davis, as I suspect many of you know, before going on to have a successful career as an academic in the History of Consciousness Department as U-C [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1970, Angela Davis, Bob Sloan, Communism, Corrections Corporation of America, Elliott Currie, ex-prisoners, for-profit prisons, History of Consciousness Department, Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream, Judge Harold Haley, kidnapping, Martin Luther King Day, Natalie Holbrook, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison labor, prison reform, prisoner rights, private prisons, Pure Michigan, racism, Soledad Brothers, Students Organizing Against Prisons, University of California Santa Cruz | 11 Comments

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary… agendas at play, profits to be made

By Mark | December 15, 2012

As you’ve no doubt heard, a gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday morning, taking the lives of 20 children (all 6 and 7 years old) and 6 adults. It’s a heartbreaking story, and I don’t know that there’s anything that I can say that hasn’t already been said better by our obviously [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Media, Observations, Other, Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Lanza, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Basketball Diaries, Charlie Booker, Chicago Sun Times, Columbine, Connecticut, David Huckabee, Diane Feinstein, Elephant, first-person shooter, God in school, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, gunman, guns, Gus Van Sant, horrifically sad stories, Jay Carney, Macy's Thanksgiving parade, mass murder, mental illness, Michigan Open Carry, Mike Huckabee, More Guns Less Crime, murdertainment, network news, news media, nightly news, NRA, Obama, prayer in school, Rick Snyder, Rob Harris, Roger Ebert, Ryan Lanza, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Senate Bill 59, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, the state of the world, Tom Brokaw, tragedy, violent video games | 42 Comments

Davontae Sanford, in prison for murders he almost certainly didn’t commit, finally gets national exposure in The New Yorker

By Mark | October 23, 2012

Over the past three years, we’ve discussed the troubling case of Davontae Sanford several times. As you may recall, Davontae was taken into police custody in Detroit at the age of 14 for the murder of four people. We’re told that Davontae, who is developmentally disabled, and blind in one eye, confessed to the murders. [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit | Also tagged Christine Moellering, coerced confessions, confessions, Dateline NBC, Davontae Sanford, getting away with murder, Kim McGinnis, Michael Russell, Michigan Court of Appeals, murder for hire, murder mystery, prison, prison industrial complex, Runyon Street, Taminko Sanford, The Innocence Project, Vincent Smothers | 21 Comments

The unsolved mystery of Jack Brown’s 1984 murder in Ypsilanti

By Mark | March 17, 2012

Every once in a while, my OCD gets the best of me, and I find myself going off on a tangent, obsessed by some little thing that, if I were anyone else, I’d probably just disregard. Recently, as you might recall, I got a little fixated, for whatever reason, by a large bell that figured [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1984, Brenda Stumbo, conspiracy theories, contract killing, Cynthia Wilbanks, Eagle Brief, Ed Hall, Ehman and Greenstreet Real Estate, Gary Hawks, getting away with murder, historic reenactment, hit man, In Search Of, Jack Brown, Kirk Profit, Mike Hawks, murder for hire, murder mystery, Orson Welles, real estate, Roy Wilbanks, scandals, sitcom ideas, The Hearts of Age, Unsolved Mysteries, Ypsilanti police department | 22 Comments

Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

By Mark | February 21, 2012

I just received a note from Nathan Ayers, the guy who won the first $1,000 grant from A2Awesome. He wanted to let me know that, back in 1984, the television program PM Magazine ran a feature on Harry Bennett’s fortress on the banks of the Huron River, in Ypsilanti. Bennett, for those of you don’t [...]

Posted in A2Awesome, History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-Semitic, automotive industry, Battle of the Overpass, castles, Charles Coughlin, Communism, exotic animals, FDR, fear of Communism, Flint, Ford Hunger March, Ford Motor Company, Ford Service Department, Ford's Service Department, General Motors, Great Depression, Greenfield Village, Harry Bennett, Harry Bennett's Castle, Henry Ford, Hilter, Huron River, industrial revolution, labor history, lions, mansions, manufacturing, middle class, Nathan Ayers, New Deal, PM Magazine, private armies, race baiting, River Rouge, safe house, secret passageways, strike breaking, threats to the middle class, tigers, turrets, union busting, Walter Reuther | 21 Comments

Tag Archives: murder

Angela Davis to commemorate MLK Day at U-M with a speech on the threat of the prison industrial complex

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary… agendas at play, profits to be made

Davontae Sanford, in prison for murders he almost certainly didn’t commit, finally gets national exposure in The New Yorker

The unsolved mystery of Jack Brown’s 1984 murder in Ypsilanti

Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

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