He’s been part of her band for about a decade ... Brandon Lewis’s latest album is a simultaneous tribute to Amiri Baraka and Don Cherry; it takes its title from a column Baraka wrote for ...

One Newark, N.J. police officer was killed and another wounded in a shooting Friday evening, authorities said. The Essex ...

A banner from the “Asian Americans for Jesse Jackson” campaign welcomes visitors to “Crescendo,” an ongoing archival exhibition at Asian Arts Initiative. The 1988 presidential campaign banner sets the ...

In its first two years, the tri-city event brought in more than $25 million, drawing a half million attendees to 650-plus ...

Thousands of members of the law enforcement community gathered Friday morning to honor the memory of slain Newark police ...

Back during the Black Arts Movement, poets such as Amiri Baraka and Jayne Cortez often performed spoken word pieces alongside inventive musicians and improvisers. (Cortez had her own band ...

Robert Smith is the Chairman of the Pala Band of Mission Indians ... The nonprofit started a catering company, Baraka and Bilal, over ten years ago . . . after they realized the biggest need ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka joins Briana Vannozzi to discuss his response to ICE expanding its footprint in its city; The community in Haddon Township bands together to support a mother and father ...

Another SXSW has come and gone, bringing premieres of many of the biggest movies and shows coming out later in 2025. The ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is making a bet on progressivism in the race for governor of New Jersey. President Donald Trump seems to be helping his cause. Baraka, the longtime mayor of New Jersey’s ...