Newark Mayor Ras Baraka signed an executive order on Feb. 19 to create an annual list of the city's non-compliant landlords.

Baraka is no stranger to the national spotlight. After he was arrested at Delaney Hall last year when McIver, Menendez and Watson Coleman sought to conduct an oversight visit, his profile as a ...

NEWARK, N.J. (WPIX) – The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was taken into custody by Homeland Security at an ICE facility on Friday afternoon, according to Alina Habba, the interim U.S. Attorney for the ...

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 Alina Habba ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mayors from New Jersey’s two largest cities say the state needs to take a more forceful political stance against cooperating ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says that he is going to run for governor of New Jersey. Baraka made the announcement Monday at a Black History Month event in Trenton. He joins former state Senate President ...