Montclair N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council

01/01/2014

Happy New Years from our family to yours!

With only hours left to the New Year, I want to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who continued to support the Montclair NAACP through their membership, attending events, writing their elected officials, attending our health fair, luncheons, meet and greets, workshops and Thurgood Marshall…

12/23/2013

The Montclair NAACP wishes you and your family a happy holidays!

From all the Officers and Executive Committee of the Montclair NAACP, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Years, and Happy Holidays. We hope it is filled with people you love and care about.

12/05/2013

Today we lost a giant for Human Rights, Nelson Mandela. The Montclair NAACP Youth Council mourns for him.

12/02/2013

As health care advocates, we have committed our lives to promoting prevention and improving the health especially for those in underserved communities. We refuse to waver in our efforts to secure access to quality health care for all, especially those suffering from preventable diseases such as HIV. (Read more of The Baltimore Sun opinion piece by NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock and former U.S. Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin.) ()

11/04/2013

Get back to the streets, GOTV efforts

There are two Ballot Questions on the ballot this year. First is a Constitutional Amendment to permit money from Games of Chance to support Veterans' Organizations. Our Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs Committee Chair, Cheryl Turner, has given us strong reasons to support that question. I do not...

10/15/2013

What are you doing tomorrow?

There is a website that specializes in satirical e-cards, someecards.com. For the presidential election, they put out an e-card that said “Let’s just hope all the undecided voters remember to vote on Wednesday.” I laughed as I sent that card to some of my close friends. But then we lost a stalwart f...

09/05/2013

Community meeting on Voting Rights Act, SOFIA Domestic Violence Walk, Education Follow-up Meeting and Congressman Payne's visit to the Montclair NAACP

On Thursday, September 4th, Union Baptist Church and the Montclair NAACP will host a community meeting to address issues on the Voting Rights Act. We will go through the issues and give the action plan. We will hold our legislative leaders accountable to replacing Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights A...

08/07/2013

Let's begin a serious dialogue about violence in our community

Last night, 21 hours ago, 4 young people were shot on Mission Street in Montclair. They are all alive, but are still in the hospital receiving care. Rather quickly, the town responded with a need for a spiritual uplifting and a game plan. Tonight, Rev. Kelly at Bright Hope Baptist opened his doors o...

08/01/2013

Our next steps... Candidate Forum, Community Meeting, March on Washington

Tonight, the NAACP will sponsor a Senate Candidates Forum at the Willing Heart Community Care Center at 555 Dr Martin Luther King Blvd in Newark. Admission is free. The event is cosponsored with the League of Women Voters, Association of Black Women Lawyers of NJ, A. Philip Randolph Institute and th...

07/15/2013

Yesterday our delegates to the NAACP National Convention stopped in Sanford, Florida. Read the message from the President.

06/25/2013

Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court. Tell Congress to take a stand for voting rights.

The Supreme Court just made a major decision that impacts voting rights for every American. In striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act -- but leaving Section 5 untouched -- there is no longer a mechanism in place to prevent states with a history of voter disenfranchisement from enacting suc...

06/04/2013

A Message in honor of Senator Lautenberg.

This year is big! With the Primary Election coming up June 4th, your vote means much more.

In 2008, we saw record numbers of voters turn out for the election of Barack Obama, and in 2009, we saw a change in turnout, in tactics and now we're living with those results. In Essex County alone, we went from a voter turn out of 320,137 in 2008 to 184,023 in 2009.  That number scares me. That nu...