NEWARK – The notion that 2017 statewide politics would impact his assessment of 2016 national politics is folly, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said this afternoon, sticking a fork in a speculative ...

Detroit — Voters who want to fight against racial profiling, human rights violations, war and the two-party system should cast their ballots for the Green Party, vice presidential nominee Ajamu Baraka ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, pictured here in a file photo, said recently revealed threats on his life are being taken "very seriously." (Star-Ledger file photo) NEWARK - Mayor Ras Baraka offered his ...

The Green Party’s vice-presidential nominee Ajamu Baraka is a longtime human rights activist. He is the founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights Network and coordinator of the U.S.-based ...

For months, Jill Stein of the Green Party attempted to push Bernie Sanders to join the Green ticket. While he ignored the call, Stein is now reaching out to Sanders supporters for their votes in ...

NEWARK - Recent controversy over a letter to the state Department of Education has Mayor Ras Baraka decrying what he is calling an organized campaign to divide public and charter school parents in the ...

The police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota horrified Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who wants police organizations to denounce the killings in no uncertain terms. A backer of ...

“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his ...

Whoever arranged to bring Baraka to the big screen after Oregon legalized marijuana deserves a medal. This tour de force of time-lapse photography spans the globe, the cycles of the moon and every ...