New Jersey’s governor’s race this year, one of just two along with Virginia, is emerging as a proving ground for Democrats ...

Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark and a Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, is campaigning on a progressive platform. Baraka is challenging the traditional suburban strategy employed by ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka held a press conference there Tuesday afternoon. ICE and the feds should not have come to Newark to find criminals, Baraka said from the microphone, but should instead look ...

Detectives responded to a call about a dead 6-year-old girl at an apartment at 19 Stratford Place, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. The girl’s ...

The girl was found on the first block of Stratford Place in the South Ward and pronounced dead at 8:43 a.m., the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said. “Details of ...

The only public comments Trump has made about the contest came last year, when he appeared on Spadea’s radio show. He told Spadea “you’ve had my back from the beginning” and criticized ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has emerged as one of the nation’s most effective urban mayors—much to the surprise of many. The former high school principal and son of iconic poet and civil rights ...