Newark Mayor Ras Jua Baraka has entered the race for governorship of New Jersey. He has governed the city of Newark since 2014.
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Baraka is also the son of the poet Amina Baraka and famed Black Arts Movement poet/playwright Amiri Baraka—he was raised in the city and his family says they can trace their Newark roots back for more than 80 years. “Your great-great-great-grandmother prayed for that house that you live in, that car that you drive. They prayed so that you would no longer be second-class or third-class, or under somebody’s feet,” he is seen in a“…I thank my great-great-great grandmother in the dungeon of Elmina Castle.
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