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Ken Gibson, Sharpe James, Cory Booker, Ras Baraka, and Black Politics in Newark
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
16 May 2025
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Black Agenda Radio · Ken Gibson, Sharpe James, Cory Booker, Ras Baraka, and Black Politics in Newark

Lawrence Hamm, of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), joins us from Newark, New Jersey, to talk about Black politics in that city. The late Sharpe James was mayor for a record-setting 20 years before Cory Booker succeeded him. Current mayor Ras Baraka was recently arrested and briefly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, while protesting at an immigration detention facility, and he is also running for governor of New Jersey. We discuss the history and trajectory of Black politics in Newark.

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Ras Baraka

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