Shayla George

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

Restorative Justice workshops have continued on Zoom since lockdown. Participants say RJ makes a difference.

On Thursday evening, some of the rally’s student organizers took the next steps, by bringing the demands of the students before the Montclair Board of Education, and called for board members to begin taking formal action on them.

Students from Montclair Kimberley Academy and seven other schools participated in the New Jersey Student Blackout on Friday, June 19th.

Nearly 300 people turned out for the Zoom discussion, which also took on how factors that led to Floyd’s killing are connected to problems Montclair faces.

MHS students brought a list of demands, to the Board of Education, and rallied and marched, in the Black Lives Matter Unity Walk on Sunday, June 7.

The forum was co-moderated by MHS juniors Genesis Whitlock and Shayla George, who serve as the president and vice president, respectively, of the Montclair NAACP Youth Council. George is also the president of the MHS Black Student Union.

Students and community members gathered in February to discuss the school-to-prison pipeline, and brainstorm ways to combat the phenomenon.