Newark mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka is now a martyr.

The arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside Delaney Hall on Friday provided him with new political fuel — even as the ...

In an era marked by deep political divisions, it's rare to find common ground between progressive urban leaders and ...

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in this year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the ...

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As Democratic lawmakers allege that President Donald Trump is weaponizing the justice system in New Jersey, the leading ...

Howard was also the site of Baraka’s formative political experience ... tide from a sorrowful past toward a more hopeful future. Black leaders have been delivering speeches much like this ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who evaded federal charges following his arrest May 9 at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

The death of Amiri Baraka on Thursday at age 79 marks the end of both an extraordinary life and an important cultural and political era when poets did not simply write about political upheavals ...

Mayor Baraka’s arrest at Delaney Hall highlights the growing conflict over immigration enforcement and its chilling effect on ...