A unique voting bloc is about to take power in New Jersey’s largest city: 16 and 17-year-olds.
Mayor Baraka has dramatically reduced homicides in the city since being elected as mayor of Newark.
The Democratic mayor of Newark has embraced the “progressive” wing of New Jersey politics. Will it be enough to catapult him to victory?
Phil Murphy’s latest round of clemency comes just a few months after President Trump pardoned dozens of Jan. 6 defendants from New Jersey.
Higher salaries will result in more experienced guards, advocates say.
Some staff layoffs are already taking place at Rutgers, a union spokesperson said. A rally is planned for Tuesday at Military Park.
Ras Baraka will present the 2025 State of the City address on April 17.
The New Jersey senator got a big thumbs-up from supporters like Kamala Harris. Others have called it a “filibuster of nothing.”
Activists are planning to hold a “March Against Injustice, Racism and Dictatorship” in Newark on April 4.
The New Jersey lawmaker broke the record for the longest speech in Senate history.
ICE has reached a $1 billion deal to reopen a federal immigration detention center in Newark. Not so fast, the city’s mayor says.
He was previously convicted of “acting as an agent of a foreign government,” and is potentially facing deportation, authorities say.
Rep. LaMonica McIver alleged that the program was cut as part of the Trump administration's “political attacks” on USAID.
It’s not time for cost-cutting – it’s time for “courage,” these activists say.
CAIR-NJ identified two "hotbeds of hate" in the state when it comes to "Islamophobia."
The nation isn’t at war – and immigrants aren’t “invading” it, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said.
“For decades, our community has been targeted as a dumping ground,” an activist said. “This is environmental racism – period.”
President Donald Trump says a "large-scale invasion" is taking place. These New Jersey immigrants and their supporters are pushing back.
This will be the first year that 16 and 17-year-olds will be allowed to vote in the Newark Board of Education election.
Activists say they’re also protesting the ongoing federal immigration crackdown and the nationwide rollback of DEI programs.
The Ironbound Community Corporation is encouraging residents to attend an upcoming virtual meeting of the PVSC.
A plan is underway to reopen a 1,000-bed immigrant detention center in New Jersey – the first under President Trump’s second term.
A social media post from President Trump about “illegal protests” has sparked a national discussion about First Amendment rights.
New Jersey Citizen Action is terminating a program that supports people who have faced housing discrimination.
John Mirrione, a former U.S. Congress candidate in NJ-10 and supporter of RFK Jr., is trying to nail down the Libertarian nod in 2025.
The 1,000-bed facility will be the first federal immigration detention center to open under President Donald Trump’s second term.
New Jersey banned prisons from making contracts to hold ICE detainees. ICE and a private company are planning a big reopening anyway.
President Trump got his wish: approval of a “big, beautiful” spending bill. Critics warn it could pave the way for deep cuts to Medicaid.
Some of the nation’s largest private prison companies want to expand space in New Jersey. Eight Congress members are demanding more details.
A controversial plan to build a power plant in a heavily polluted Newark neighborhood is now only a permit away from the finish line.
“We are at war,” LaMonica McIver urged at a rally. “This sounds like a call for insurrection to me,” Marjorie Taylor Greene replied.
Social media companies would be required to create a 24-hour, toll-free telephone number for New Jersey residents who have been hacked.
“We are going to Washington to protest the racist, fascist, right-wing policies and proposed budget cuts of the Trump administration.”
Slavery reparations are already part of the discussion. Now it’s time to apply that to another type of discrimination, a NJ professor says.
Just because you’re in a nursing home doesn’t mean that someone is always around to push your wheelchair, these New Jersey lawmakers say.
Are any future grants coming down the pipeline? That may be a question for President Donald Trump.
The battle over immigration – which also took place during the Biden administration – has reignited in Newark since Trump’s inauguration.
Stay silent. Ask to speak to a lawyer. And don’t run. These are some tips from local activists as a national ICE crackdown continues.
Newark is the first city in New Jersey to lower the voting age to 16 for local school board elections.
A former sergeant alleges that he was fired in retaliation after reporting misconduct within the Rutgers-Newark police department.