The candidate rolled his eyes at the question. Ras Baraka — mayor of Newark, son of activist poet Amiri Baraka and one of only two people of color running for governor — clearly has gotten this before ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week, a federal prosecutor said. Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney ...

Baraka was arrested by federal agents after a May 9 visit to the immigrant detention center with New Jersey Congress members LaMonica McIver, Rob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman. In the lawsuit, ...

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka on Tuesday sued federal officials for “false arrest and malicious prosecution” following his arrest last month outside an immigrant detention center on a trespassing charge ...