Black Lives Matter

“This person is making assumptions about us," one recipient said. "They don’t know what we do in our spare time to back our beliefs and help others."

Montclair resident Gene Gitelson stood at the township's “Five Corners” intersection on Flag Day reminding people of the value of Black and Asian lives, and the hopes he says the U.S. flag must stand for.

The wordless, tap tribute to George Floyd is just one expression of angst, grief and a desire for change expressed through powerful art in Montclair.

Teachers Undoing Racism Now, a key participant in Montclair's recent BLM Week of Action, wants to see more minority hiring and inclusive lessons.

Across the nation and here in Montclair, moms are protesting and taking to the streets for political issues they care about.

Juneteenth will now be an official holiday on the Montclair school calendar, and Oct. 12 will be marked on the school calendar as Indigenous Peoples Day rather than Columbus Day. 

The “school resource officer” was born in the wake of school shootings in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, after which officers more commonly began being stationed in schools.

With the pandemic making summer jobs hard to find, Montclair teens became entrepreneurrs, using their art to earn some money.

When COVID-19 hit, Hannah Giordano pivoted and started donating her money from friendship bracelets she makes to good causes.

by ALIYAH ANDREWS, ISIS AREVALO, MIKEE ELLIS and GENESIS WHITLOCK Special to Montclair Local This piece is part of our "Town Square" opinion essay section. The writers are organizers of Black Lives Matter Montclair. Over the past few months our community has shown an overwhelming amount of support for the Black Lives Matter movement...