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 […]
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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
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, Jackson, 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, Vernon Dahmer, white power, Willie McGee, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 9 Comments
When running for Michigan Supreme Court, it helps to have a sister who’s a famous actress
I’ve received letters from three people today, each asking that I share the following advertisement for the campaign of Michigan Supreme Court candidate Bridget Mary McCormack, featuring the reunited cast of the West Wing. I rarely find myself feeling sympathy for Republicans, but, really, how can anyone running in a state-wide election be expected to […]