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Newark mayor returns to immigration detention center days after trespassing arrest
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last ...
Ras Baraka’s arrest thrust him into the national spotlight as voters make up their mind in the NJ governor’s race
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and all his primary opponents for NJ governor are arguing they can stand up to President Donald Trump ...
Sharpe James, who served a record five terms as mayor of Newark, dies at 89
A dynamic, street-fighting, longtime mayor, his legacy was tarnished by a corruption conviction he never stopped challenging ...
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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 ...