Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWARK, NJ - JANUARY 18: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka attends a unity rally on the steps of City Hall in downtown Newark in support of ...

Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, released a passionate, timely new video for “What We Want,” the title track to his 2019 EP. Directed by Ayana Stafford-Morris and produced by Udi Aloni, the ...

"Each time we have an inauguration, there’s an opportunity to start all over again," Ras Baraka said.

Newark swore in its mayor and nine council members on Wednesday, including the one non-incumbent elected in the city’s May ...

NEWARK, New Jersey — The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, was handcuffed and detained by federal officials on Friday at a protest of an immigration ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is calling for the immediate closure of Delaney Hall, which has been at the center of ongoing protests.

Mayor’s wife accuses government of targeting her husband as video shows him being placed in handcuffs by officials The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested for alleged trespass at an Immigration ...

Newark mayor and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Ras J. Baraka stepped up to the podium as the lunchtime keynote speaker for an urban economic growth conference at Rutgers Law School and started ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is making a bet on progressivism in the race for governor of New Jersey. President Donald Trump seems to be helping his cause. Baraka, the longtime mayor of New Jersey’s most ...

At a 2002 news conference in Newark, Amiri Baraka defended a poem he wrote about 9/11. (AP Photo/Mike Derer) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to ...

City Councilman Ras Baraka, son of the late poet Amiri Baraka, has been elected mayor of Newark. A Democrat with deep roots in the city, Baraka captured 54 percent of the votes, reports the Newark ...