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Cory Booker’s coffers need more folks to start coughing up some coins.

As concerns continue to grow about dangerous lead in Newark, N.J.’s drinking water, Mayor Ras Baraka, along with…

Wendy Williams’ life got more loop-de-loops than Six Flags.

Inspiring comparisons to the water crisis in Flint, Mich., New Jersey’s biggest (and predominantly black) city,…

How do you define the blackness of a city? For Black History Month, we challenged writers to explain why they think…

Newark is so black that during the Great Migration, folks thought it was “New York,” got off the train, and stayed. T…

After conquering the entertainment industry, and leaving an indelible mark on music, film and television,…

Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras J. Baraka wrote a letter to Donald Trump, urging the president to ditch his potential plan…

Newark, N.J., native and finest supervillain to ever grace a film screen (don’t @ me on this) Michael B. Jordan…

It is still not clear why an 8-year-old New Jersey girl decided to take her own life over the weekend, but sources…

I have an uncle who will tell anyone willing to listen about his history of drug use. He will unabashedly talk about…

On a balmy summer night in 2003, 31-year-old Shani Baraka and her partner, Rayshon Holmes, 30, went to Baraka’s…

Police are looking for a New Jersey woman after she allegedly attacked a white man at a Virginia gas pump and called…

I’m really confused right now, but I’m just going with it and writing this piece anyway. As it turns out, actress…

Authorities have tracked down a New Jersey man who was wanted in connection with a weekend knife attack in Newark,…

Police are enlisting the public's help in the search for a New Jersey principal who was last seen Wednesday at…

A Newark, N.J., 10-year-old was left in tears after he was chased down an alley by officers who had their guns drawn…