The City of Newark has launched its inaugural Poet Laureate program, Mayor Ras Baraka announced on ... a heartbeat at our center,” said Baraka, whose father Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi ...

George C. Richardson (1931-2021) was a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1960s and 1970s.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says that veteran "suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned." He insisted that there was no warrant for the arrest.

WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said U.S. immigration agents rounded up undocumented migrants as well as American citizens in a raid Thursday, just days after President Donald ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Mayor Ras Baraka is speaking out after he says three undocumented workers and others who are U.S. citizens were detained, fingerprinted and had their pictures taken ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, members of the city council, and state and federal representatives held a news conference Friday morning about what the mayor is calling a "raid" by Immigration and ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly referred to as ICE, raided a local establishment in the city on Thursday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a workplace raid in Newark, New Jersey, Thursday—criticized by the city’s mayor Ras Baraka, who said the agents detained several people ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said residents of Newark are being "unlawfully terrorized." The Trump administration has pledged to crack down on illegal immigration. (Photo via U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE performed the Thursday raid without a warrant and the military veteran who was detained “suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation ...

New Jersey Democrats and immigration activists vowed to fight against President Donald Trump's immigration policies after eight people were detained Thursday in an ICE raid in Newark. Newark Mayor ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka condemned a warrantless ICE immigration raid at a local business, resulting in the detainment of both undocumented residents and citizens, among them a military veteran.