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Reformed epistemology endeavors to show that theists suffer from no epistemic defect because no argument or evidence is required in order for religious belief to be rational. According to Wolterstorff, epistemic entitlement comes from engaging in doxastic practices that constitute doing one's epistemic duty.
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This Article is the second in a three-part series on the 2006 prosecution and defense of the Jena Six in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. The series, in turn, is part of a larger, ongoing project investigating the role of race, lawyers, and ethics in the American criminal-justice system. The purpose of the project is to understand the race-based, identity-making norms and practices of prosecutors and defenders in order to craft alternative civil-rights and criminal-justice strategies in cases of racially-motivated violence. To that end, this Article revisits the prosecution and defense of the Jena Six in the hope of uncovering the professional norms of practice under de jure and de facto conditions of racial segregation, a set of norms I call Jim Crow legal ethics. Jim Crow ethical norms cond...
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The Niagara Movement marked a sharp ideological and political break with established Black leadership over the proper response to the highest stage of White Supremacy," says Daryl Michael Scott, chair of the Howard University history department and vice president-elect of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. While some Black leaders had previously questioned Booker T. Washington's general policy of racial accommodation in the face of lynchings, disfranchisement and de jure segregation, the Niagara Movement not only denounced these policies, but also rejected the notion that there should be preconditions for citizenship rights and called for full 'manhood' suffrage.
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According to data in the Healthy People 2010 document racial and ethnic minority currently constitute 25% of the total US population (US Department of Health and Human Services). Since the 1980's the elimination de-jure segregation in higher education has resulted in a surge of minority enrollment in PWUs.
