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Reporter Rob Davis interviewed Sharon Gary-Smith, who was displaced from her home in Portland's Albina district in 1961.
In late January, news came out of the Portland branch of the NAACP that raised eyebrows around the Portland political scene: the chapter’s newly-elected president, James Posey, was attempting to appoint Vadim Mozyrsky as chair of the branch’s Political Affairs committee. Less than a year earlier, Mozyrsky, whose family came to the United States as refugees from Ukraine, had been a candidate for Portland City Council running to the right of sitting Commissioner and former...
Columnist: ‘Thoughts and prayers’ aren’t enough to end gun violence, and the time is now for political action.
Sharon Gary-Smith and Donovan Scribes joined Portland NAACP leadership at what they describe as a turning point in the chapter’s 108-year history. In October 2020, then-president of the Portland NAACP Elbert "E.D." Mondainé stepped down following a board vote for his immediate resignation. A week prior, the Portland Mercury had published a story detailing the stories of three men who alleged that Mondainé sexually and physically abused them when they attended his church, Celebration Tabernacle....
After this month's election, James Posey, former mayoral candidate and co-founder of the National Association of Minority Contractors of Oregon, will succeed Sharon Gary-Smith as president of the NAACP Portland. Gary-Smith took over leadership of the NAACP after Elbert D. Mondainé resigned amid allegations of abuse.