The Newark mayor has influenced the way city schools are run. But despite citywide efforts to help improve academic outcomes, ...

Ras Baraka was first elected mayor of Newark back in 2014. Under his leadership, the city "achieved a 60-year low in crime," ...

U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba said the trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka have been dropped. Habba also said she is now charging Rep. LaMonica McIver over the incident.

The Newark mayor sued federal officials, alleging false arrest and defamation over a dropped trespassing charge at an ICE ...

Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark and New Jersey’s Democratic candidate for governor, speaks outside the Newark Federal Courthouse, in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., May 15, 2025. REUTERS Black Americans ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has released footage he says proves he was invited onto the grounds of Delaney Hall, a new ICE detention center in New Jersey, where he was arrested for trespassing last week.

Baraka is perhaps the most interesting personality ... My parents were also involved in electing the first African American mayor of Newark [Kenneth Gibson] and in the 1972 National Black ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has filed a federal lawsuit, after he was arrested by masked federal agents outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement jail in Newark. “They arrested me without any ...

Mayor Ras Baraka has sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest outside a federal immigration detention ...

FILE - Newark mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka speaks to reporters after a protest in front of of Delaney Hall, the proposed site of an immigrant detention center, in Newark ...

The Democratic candidate for NJ governor says the government's case, since dropped, was the product of political malice.

NEWARK, N.J. — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said federal prosecutors tried to “humiliate and degrade” him by making him give his fingerprints and take a mug shot for a second time Thursday after ...