NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka believes it is time for him to make the move from the mayor's office to the governor's office. "Being in charge of Newark for over a decade ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Baraka is perhaps the most interesting personality in a crowded Democratic ...

Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Tuesday called his arrest last month “egregious” and “authoritarian,” as he made the case that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested in May outside Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in New Jersey. He was later released. Photo: Popular Democracy in Action ...

Trespassing charge against Baraka was dropped ahead of key gubernatorial endorsement. After a trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was abruptly dismissed by U.S. District Judge Andre ...

A federal judge chided the Department of Justice (DOJ) during a Wednesday hearing where he agreed to dismiss a trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) that stemmed from his visit to ...

The federal trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been dismissed after his arrest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba ...

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 a court ...

NEWARK, New Jersey — Ras Baraka, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city and a Democratic candidate for governor, said a trespassing charge against him was “silly,” “petty” and should ...

The two sides gathered for a status conference regarding the trespassing charges filed against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, in the chambers of United States Magistrate Judge Andre Espinosa in the ...

Lawyers in the United States have said they will file a motion to dismiss trespassing charges directed at Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, following his arrest during a protest at an immigrant detention ...

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka compared his arrest at a federal immigration center last week to the Bible's accounts of King David, telling a crowd at a political rally in his city Tuesday ...