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Ras Jua Baraka (born April 9, 1970) is an American educator, author, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Baraka is the 40th and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey. First elected in the 2014 election, he was sworn into office on May 13, 2014, and was reelected in 2018 and 2022.
Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. A native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 80 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to the White House.
May 14, 2014 · Baraka defeated the former assistant state attorney general Shavar Jeffries, winning fifty-four per cent of the vote to Jeffries’s forty-six.
Mar 25, 2024 · Ras Baraka couldn’t be less like Ron DeSantis or Greg Abbott. A Black Democrat raised by activist poets, he is the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, Newark, and proclaimed it a sanctuary ...
Ras J. Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. A native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 80 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to the White House.
Feb 20, 2024 · NEWARK, N.J. -- Another high-profile mayor says he wants to jump into the New Jersey gubernatorial race. At a Black History Month event Monday night, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said, "I want to...
Mar 12, 2024 · Newark, NJ – March 12, 2024 – Mayor Ras J. Baraka presented his 10 th annual State of the City Address tonight, in a joyful, impassioned, and triumphant speech to the residents of Newark assembled at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, located at 1 Center Street.
Feb 22, 2024 · Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is charting out an unabashedly progressive lane in the primary to succeed Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, eschewing what he described as incremental centrist politics.
Feb 19, 2024 · Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gave a rousing speech Monday, exciting a crowd at a Black History Month event in Trenton and discussing his own political ambitions, according to videos posted on social...
Dec 4, 2017 · The Honorable Ras Baraka. Biography. Political leader Ras Baraka was born on April 9, 1969 in Newark, New Jersey to writer and playwright Amiri Baraka and poet Amina Baraka.
