We examine school governance in populist era, using contemporary readings of pragmatist philosophy. We are in a "populist moment," a time of uprisings and movements of the "demos" making political claims (Mouffe, 2018). School officials in the U.S. are subject to an array of political demands in the form of protests and…

Notes that blacks are destined to remain strangers in the land of opportunity and in the system of justice, except as persons suspected, accused, arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned, executed--all in disproportionate numbers. (Author/AM)

This is a report on the harassment of black elected officials. It does not address harassment of other minority elected officials, nor of women who are other than black. The report does not address the harassment of appointed public officials or of other black professionals. The report touches only minimally on other proportions of the continuum…