“Governor Spotswood also sensed the danger. The 1710 conspiracy demonstrated the ability of the enslaved to organize across ethnic lines–and at a time when their numbers were rapidly increasing–making them a “Most Dangerous” enemy. He chided slaveholders for their lax…
“A watershed in the developing ideology was reached when in 1723 the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act ostensibly designed to promote better government and social control. One of its most significant articles state that “no free negro, mulatto,…
“The doctrine of infra praesidia was denied, and it was asserted that the property was vested by capture as to the enemy; that though it may be trespass as to the neutral, the taking vests the right in the captor,…
Professor Kimani Paul-Emile, an associate professor of law at Fordham University and associate director of its law school’s Center on Race, Law & Justice, published a 72-page report titled “Blackness is a Disability”. Professor Emile bottom line is being black…
“Of critical significance is the fact that in holding § 20 constitutional the Court construed it to extend only to acts committed with the intent to deprive a person of a right made specific (1) by the express terms of…
“The following is a useful article written by a brother some time ago. It is especially relevant now due to the ongoing peace process in order to legitimize the illegal Israeli state. In 1979, the Egyptian regime signed a peace treaty with…
As to what would constitute fundamental injustice, it may be useful to consider a case such as State v. Cerbo, 78 N.J. 595 , 397 A.2d 671 (1979). In that case the Court dealt with a violation of statutory…
Finding “extraordinary circumstances in a legal system that was openly hostile to the [plaintiffs], courts that were practically closed to their claims, a City that blamed them…and actually suppressed the facts, an era of Klan domination of the courts…