Mayor Ras Baraka speaks during the Make the Road New Jersey, the NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice and others, demonstration against a new ICE immigrant detention center at Delaney Hall in Newark ...

N ewark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, said he believes federal prosecutors tried to humiliate him by forcing him to give fingerprints and take a second mugshot during his May 15 processing.

Newark mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka speaks to reporters after a protest in front of of Delaney Hall, the proposed site of an immigrant detention center, in Newark, N.J., March 11 ...

Ras Baraka was released from custody after being arrested at a protest against a controversial ICE facility run by private prison operator GEO Group. Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka walked ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said federal prosecutors him tried to “humiliate and degrade” him by making him give his fingerprints and take a mug shot for a second time after ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's arrest at the hands of Homeland Security agents outside Delaney Hall on Friday night was pure gold in terms of political theater. Everyone who found themselves in the ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka speaks next to civil rights attorney Nancy Erika Smith, right, as they attend a press conference regarding his May 9th arrest at Delaney Hall, outside U.S. District Court ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka joins protesters outside of Delaney Hall, a recently re-opened immigration detention center, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka presents his 11th State of the City Address on Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Prudential Hall in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said he’s running for governor in 2025 to push for change at the New Jersey statehouse for people who have never had access to power. “We have spent a lot of energy and ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court Thursday for a status conference on the Trump administration's charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week.