Richard T. Smith Archives - New Jersey Globe

After anti-Semitic rant, Montclair NAACP leader is back

August 20, 2025 5:04 amAugust 20, 2025 12:42 am

In 2020, James E. Harris went on a tirade, claiming the Jewish community in Lakewood “controls” the town at the expense of black and Latino students and described Hasidic Jews as “folks in long black suits and curly locks” who...

NAACP president, key black leaders back Murphy Supreme Court pick

June 5, 2020 7:56 pm

A group of Black leaders, including New Jersey NAACP New Jersey State Conference president Richard T. Smith, have endorsed Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Fabiana Pierre-Louis as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. If confirmed by the...

Currie seeks Dye resignation from NAACP post

August 28, 2019 2:28 pmAugust 28, 2019 3:24 pm

New Jersey Democratic State Chairman John Curie has called on embattled Passaic NAACP President Jeffrey Dye to resign. “Jeffrey Dye’s public statements do not fit within the mission of the NAACP, which is dedicated to the elimination of race-based discrimination...