Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka named names in his 12 th annual State-of-the-City Address, name-checking scores of young athletes and ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newark was among the cities that just won a court battle with the Trump administration over sanctuary policies for immigrants.

Newark swore in its mayor and nine council members on Wednesday, including the one non-incumbent elected in the city’s May non-partisan elections, a longtime critic of the city administration and the ...

The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is set to announce his city’s legal strategy aimed at shutting down the Delaney Hall ICE jail. The for-profit immigration detention center has been the focus of ...

On Saturday night (May 30), a mandatory curfew up to a half-mile around the federal detention center outside of Newark, New Jersey known as Delaney Hall was enacted by the city’s mayor, Ras Baraka. It ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is calling for the immediate closure of Delaney Hall, which has been at the center of ongoing protests.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of Newark imposed a curfew early Sunday around an immigration detention center in New Jersey after a series of intense clashes between protesters and police. The curfew ...

To say there was a crowded field in the race for Newark mayor was putting it mildly. But in the end, it didn't matter. The Associated Press projects incumbent Ras Baraka, a progressive Democrat, will ...