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New Jersey Globe3d
A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka
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 ...
The outsider
Under Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark has endured crises — lead in the city’s water and the recent fatal shooting of a police ...
Hip-Hop Wired5d
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested At ICE Detention Center, X Outraged
Local outlet The Star-Ledger reports that Mayor Ras Baraka, 55, was at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, flanked by Democratic Party U.S. Reps. Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver ...
New Jersey Globe12dOpinion
Baraka rips Sherrill: ‘Where are the new plays?’
OPINION A recent editorial by Rep. Mikie Sherrill said Democrats need a new get-tough playbook to battle the Trump ...
The News-Times3d
Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, released after arrest at immigration detention center
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was released after spending several hours in custody following his arrest at a new federal immigration detention center he has been protesting against. Baraka was ...
NBC New York4d
Newark mayor denies trespassing at ICE detention center following arrest
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing ... She also accused Baraka, who is seeking his party's nomination for governor, of playing “political games." “I'm shocked by all ...