Montclair Civil Rights Commission

"While I have certainly been hearing from congregants who are concerned and angry, said Bnai Keshet Rabbi Elliott Tepperman, “the most common response I have heard is one of resilience and solidarity."

The report was delivered to officials including Township Manager Timothy Stafford — who had authorized the promotions test rubric that firefighters say was slanted against them.

Members of the Montclair Civil Rights Commission say they reported a police officer's comments because of his responsibility to protect all township residents.

The firefighters say the rubric was changed specifically to put them at a disadvantage.

Thousands of people had voted in advance, through mail-in ballots and early voting.

'The public outcry as far as I can tell has not come from a diverse population,' Councilman David Cummings, who represents the Fourth Ward, said.

The Montclair Board of Education is being criticized for its decision to have a police officer be present at the Feb. 19 BOE 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

by ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Authorities are looking into reports that the ice menorah on Church Street, which was set up for a special community event to mark the first night of Hanukkah, may have been vandalized. Deputy police chief Wil Young told Montclair Local that an anonymous caller reported the incident on Dec...

Montclair scored only 58 out of 100 points on Human Right’s Campaign’s 2018 Municipal Equality Index for LBGTQ rights.