James Harris

James Harris says racial inclusion and diversity have been reflected by every mayor’s appointments.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A group of parents and community advocates called for the removal of Interim Schools Superintendent Nathan Parker at the Jan. 22 Board of Education meeting, alleging he made racist remarks during a meeting of the Montclair NAACP Education Committee this past fall...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A group of Montclair-area clergy and community leaders has issued an open letter addressing a meeting on Jan. 6 to discuss how to build unity and understanding in Montclair in the wake of a NAACP official's remarks criticized as anti-Semitic...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news James Harris has been asked to temporarily step aside from his leadership role within the Montclair NAACP after he was criticized for making anti-Semitic remarks during a Dec. 30 community meeting...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair civil rights leader James Harris has apologized following criticism of comments viewed by community leaders to be anti-Semitic at the Dec. 30 Fourth Ward meeting. During the course of the meeting, which dealt in part with gentrification and housing affordability in Montclair, Harris, the chair of the New Jersey Association of Black Educators and the

Chris Singleton, the son of a shooting victim in Charleston 2015, will speak at Union Baptist Church on Saturday, Sept. 7, at 3 p.m.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Fear of what yet another transition in district leadership will mean for Montclair was an overall theme at the July 15 BOE meeting when members approved Superintendent Kendra Johnson’s resignation. W...

Get out and Vote People of Montclair, if you think this country is headed in the wrong direction and you find the policies and character of the current administration abhorrent there is something you can do about it. On Tuesday, Nov...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The subject of suspensions and equity continued to come up for discussion at the Monday, Jan. 22, BOE meeting. The meeting - a relatively short one, lasting an hour and a half - also included a discussion of the district’s action plan for its special education services. A...

Adarian Sneed, chairperson of Wednesday night’s Montclair NAACP’s Youth Town Hall, says that although the young people at the meeting she presided over spoke less than the adults, they benefited from the evening. “I always wish youth would speak more,” Sneed said after the meeting, “but I think that by the parents being here and the adults giving their insights — which was beautiful — if the didn