Definitions We Should All Know

Nationality: the status of belonging to a particular nation, whether by birth or naturalization: the nationality of an immigrant.

Jus soli: (Latin for "right of the soil" or, somewhat figuratively, "right of the territory"), or birthright citizenship, is a right by which nationality or citizenship can be recognised to any individual born in the territory of the related state.

Jus sanguinis: (Latin: right of blood) is a social policy by which nationality or citizenship is not determined by place of birth, but by having an ancestor who is a national or citizen of the state. It contrasts with jus soli (Latin for "right of soil").

Nationality law: is the branch of law concerned with the questions of nationality and citizenship, and how these statuses are transmitted, acquired, or lost.
By custom, states have the right to determine who its nationals are. Such determinations are usually made by custom, statutory law, or case law (precedent), or some combination.

Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

1.Everyone has the right to a nationality.

2.No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Ethnicity: 1. ethnic traits, background, allegiance, or association.

Kimberly Jade Norwood

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Professor of Law and Professor of African & African American Studies.

After graduation from law school Professor Norwood was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Clifford Scott Green in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Thereafter Professor Norwood joined the St. Louis law firm of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters, & McRoberts where she practiced law in the litigation department.

Her recent articles include "Adult Complicity in the Dis-Education of the Black Male High School Athlete and Societal Failures to Remedy His Plight,” 34 (1) ThurMar L.Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2008-2009), "Blackthink's™ "Acting White" Stigma in Education & How It Fosters Academic Paralysis in Black Youth," 50(3) How L.J. 711(2006-2007), [view article], "The Virulence of Blackthink™ and How Its Threat of Ostracism Shackles Those Deemed Not Black Enough," 93 Kentucky Law Journal 144 (2005) [view article]. source

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Pregnant Briton to escape death penalty in Laos

A British woman facing possible execution in Laos will escape the death sentence because she is pregnant, a spokesman for the Laotian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The country's criminal law prohibits courts from sentencing pregnant women to death, spokesman Khenthong Nuanthasing told CNN. The woman's trial hasn't been scheduled yet, he said, but is likely to happen next week.
Samantha Orobator, 20, was facing death by firing squad for drug trafficking, said Clare Algar, the executive director of Reprieve, a London-based human rights group. continue reading here

Leah Ward Sears

Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Georgia. She is also Chair of the Judicial Council of Georgia, the 200 million dollar agency in charge of the state judicial system. When sworn in on June 28, 2005, Sears became the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States. When she was first appointed as justice in 1992 by then Governor Zell Miller, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sears is considered a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee by President Barack Obama to become a Supreme Court Justice with the planned June 2009 retirement of David Souter.

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Toronto woman flown back from Mexico dies

A critically ill Toronto woman who was brought back to Canada after suffering a severe asthma attack and cardiac arrest while on vacation in Mexico has died.

Victoria George-Pazzano, 29, died Tuesday night at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre, her husband Dylan Pazzano confirmed to CBC News. Source

Toronto woman on life support returns from Mexico

Victoria George-Pazzano is home.

The 29-year-old Toronto woman, who has been on life-support in a Mexican hospital since suffering a severe asthma attack a week ago, arrived in Toronto in an air ambulance a little before 11 a.m. today.

George-Pazzano is being taken to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre.

She is still in a critical condition and on life support, said a family member earlier today. Continue reading here

Critically ill Canadian denied re-entry from Mexico

The family of a Canadian woman who fell critically ill due to a severe asthma attack in Mexico says that health officials in Canada are refusing her a hospital bed in Toronto because of unfounded swine flu fears.

Victoria George, 29, has been on life support in a Cancun hospital since Wednesday. Her mother says that her insurance provider has been repeatedly told there are no intensive care unit beds available for her to be transferred to in the Greater Toronto Area.

"Doctors in Mexico told (Victoria's) husband, 'She has no symptoms or pathologies of the swine flu-virus and she never did: her condition is a direct result of her asthma,'" Pauline George told CTV.ca in a telephone interview late Sunday evening. Continue reading here.

Quote of The Day

Negro, Black, Coloured are euphemisms for the words "slave" and "property".

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Quote of The Day

"Hebrew people were enslaved by The Pharaoh and when released they were still Hebrews. The Irish were enslaved by the English; however when released they were still Irish. The Japanese were put in concentration camps by the U.S during World War II. When they were released they were still Japanese not yellow people. One could have called them yellow people out of disrespect not because it was their ancestral or national name."

Malcolm Knew !!

Negro

"Negro" means "black" in Spanish, Portuguese, and ancient Italian - all of which derive from the Latin niger (i.e. "black").

Necro

necro-, the Greek prefix meaning death

Three-fifths compromise

We are not "Black" are fore mothers never named us "Black"