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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

dispassionate evaluation of credible evidence" and never "to advance political agendas." The "reprimands did not go unnoticed," the New Jersey Globe said, quoting Baraka commenting into a hot mic ...

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

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 ...