"Each time we have an inauguration, there’s an opportunity to start all over again," Ras Baraka said.

NEWARK — Mayor Ras Baraka laced into critics of his administration’s handling of the city’s ongoing lead contamination problems on Wednesday night, using a “State of Water” town hall to tout recent ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against interim ...

We didn’t know the late Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), who died this week at the age of seventy-nine, as a famous poet who initiated the powerful Black Arts Movement in 1965, or as the man whose ...

On an August day in 2011, a man stood outside City Hall in Newark, New Jersey, exhorting a crowd through a wireless microphone. “Stop giving love to these psychopaths,” he roared. The “psychopaths” ...

Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was taken into custody by federal agents outside of an ICE detention center Friday. Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, confirmed ...

A lot of people are going to be writing hagiographies of Amiri Baraka, who died on January 9, at the age of 79. A lot of other people are going to be painting him as a hateful, irredeemable ...