Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey was arrested and released on Friday after a scuffle at the gate of an ICE facility.

The arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has raised his profile nationally, shedding light on his rise to electoral power.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka‘s voice can be heard on the campaign ... and created a spoken word poetry show called Verse for Verse in Newark. His father Amiri Baraka was also a poet and an activist. Baraka ...