Newark Today

On this month's edition of Newark Today, host Michael Hill is joined by Mayor Ras J. Baraka along with Director of Health and Community Wellness Dr. Mark Wade. They discuss the the latest COVID-19 restrictions in New Jersey's largest city.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka delivered his long awaited speech to an nearly empty room at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, as thousands tuned in online to Baraka's first ever virtual State of The City address. The Mayor highlighted everything from Newark's nationally touted COVID-19 response, to the recently announced $100 million fund for Black and LatinX businesses, to declaring white supremacist organizations illegal in New Jersey's largest city.

This month's edition of Newark Today was an in-depth discussion on race, policing and police reform in New Jersey's largest city.

Host Michael Hill of NJTV News is joined by Mayor Ras Baraka along with Shakira McKnight with the Mayor's Office of Youth and College Affairs, to discuss opportunities for young people and their efforts to increase college enrollment among the city's six colleges and universities.

On this month's edition of Newark Today, host Michael Hill will be joined by Ketlen Alsbrook, Chief of Staff of the Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness, Taiisa Kelly with Monarch Housing Associates, and Richard Uniacke with Bridges Outreach, to talk about the city's new year-round shelter initiative while also highlighting city-wide programs and services for those in need during this year's holiday season. Call in with you questions and comments at 844-677-9283. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://plugins.eventable.com/eventable.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}}(document, "script", "eventable-script");

On this edition of Newark Today we are joined by Host Michael Hill of NJTV, Mayor Ras Baraka, and Chief of Development Carmelo Garcia, to talk about what's being done to increase development outside the city's booming downtown district, and how the city's often underserved neighborhoods could see some major changes.

On this month's Newark Today, hosted by NJTV's Michael Hill, we are joined by Mayor Ras Baraka, State Senator Ron Rice, and Founder of Salvation and Social Justice Rev. Charles Boyer to discuss New Jersey's push to legalize recreational marijuana and how it could affect the state's largest city.

We’ll be discussing local control of Newark Public Schools during our live broadcast of Newark Today Thursday October 19 at 8PM. We invite the community to be a part of the audience at Express Newark in the downtown district’s historic Hahne’s building. Your host, NJTV’s Michael Hill will be joined by city Mayor Ras Baraka and a panel of guests. Doors open tonight at 7:15. Newark Today live October 19 at 8PM on WBGO and wbgo.org Now that Newark Public Schools are in position to regain control of governance from the state, parents are asking if the city is ready. “To be honest with you I’m not really sure,” said Alexis Jones of Parents Educating Parents, a Newark based organization that advises families towards educational success for their children. “As a parent, I think I should have a say in what happens with my child’s education.” “There you have it. We have a parent that is unsure and that should never happen in the district.” Yolonda Johnson is the founder of Parents Educating

On this month's edition of Newark Today Mayor Ras Baraka talks summer in the city, the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Newark Rebellion, and announces his bid for re-eelection.

On this month's edition of Newark Today, on the heels of the opening of the Shani Baraka Women's Resource Center, we discuss domestic violence in New Jersey's largest city and what's being done to address the issue. We are joined by Mayor Ras Baraka, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose, and domestic volence counselor and founder of Purple R.E.I.G.N. Asia D. Smith.

On this edition of Newark Today we talk policing and federal consent decrees in New Jersey's largest city with Mayor Ras J. Baraka, activist and leader of The People's Organization For Progress Larry Hamm, and former U. S. District Attorney for the state of New Jersey Paul Fishman.

On this months edition of Newark Today we are joined by Mayor Ras Baraka and Archange Antoine, Executive Director of immigrant advocacy group Faith in NJ, to talk about the debate over immigration and how it is affecting sanctuary cities like Newark.

Newark's four elected living Mayors join host Michael Hill for a historic discussion about the hurdles they've faced and the victories they each achieved as leaders of the city for last 5 decades.

Like Sharpe James and Cory Booker before him, Ras Baraka became the third straight former city councilman turned mayor in 2014. And like the mayors who preceded him, he knows how to fire up a crowd. “We need a mayor who unapologetically loves this city and the people in it. And most importantly, we need a mayor that believes in you and knows no fear. I am thankful to god that today you have chosen me to be this mayor,” Baraka said during his inauguration speech in 2014. The Baraka name is rooted deep in Newark history. He’s the son of poets and civil rights activists Amina and Amiri Baraka. A proud product and principal of Newark Public Schools, Ras Baraka has taken his passion for the districts best interests to city hall, in hopes the state will return the schools back to local control. “We have to remain more vigilant, more focused on the goal which is to return the operation of the school district into the hands of the people.” Baraka’s administration has made great strides since

Programming Note: Cory Booker will join us this Friday, February 3rd at 8pm as Newark Today Presents "The Four Living Mayors". He will be joined by fellow former mayors Ken Gibson, Sharpe James and current mayor Ras Baraka for what will be a historic night. Cory Booker was elected as Newark’s mayor in 2006. Booker, a one-time all Pac-10 football tight end at Stanford University, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Oxford before earning his J.D. from Yale Law School. His career in politics started almost immediately after his time at Yale, winning a seat on Newark’s city council. He lost a heated contest for mayor against Sharpe James in 2002, but when James decided not to run again, the people came out in numbers to support Cory Booker. “We don’t want this to be a faction taking over city hall. We want this to be the community reclaiming city hall for itself and for the values that are most central to Newarkers. We’re trying to create, and I said this in my staff

Programming Note: Sharpe James will join us this Friday, February 3rd at 8pm as Newark Today Presents "The Four Living Mayors". He will be joined by fellow former mayors Ken Gibson, US Senator Cory Booker and current mayor Ras Baraka for what will be a historic night. Mayor Sharpe James served as Newark’s south ward councilman before defeating Ken Gibson in a close 1986 election. It would end up being his closest election as city mayor. He was such a presence he ran unopposed in 1990. James went on to serve five terms, eventually becoming a state senator. “Today I call for one Newark. A Newark working together for better tomorrows, and continue to fight against crime, drugs, auto theft, and activities that impair our quality of life,” James proclaimed during his last inauguration address in 2002. James would serve as mayor and state senator until deciding not to run for reelection. In 2008 he was convicted of fraud and spent 18 months in federal prison for selling discounted plots of

Programming Note: Ken Gibson will join us this Friday, February 3rd at 8pm as Newark Today Presents "The Four Living Mayors". He will be joined by fellow former mayors Sharpe James, US Senator Cory Booker and current mayor Ras Baraka for what will be a historic night. Ken Gibson was elected as Newark’s first African American mayor in 1970. A transitional period for Newark; the city was in recovery from the 67’ rebellion. “Everybody thought that everything was racial and it wasn’t. Everybody said that we had snipers in the streets and we didn’t. They said black people could not achieve, and they still say that today and that’s not true. They told me that I could never become mayor, and I became mayor,” Gibson told WBGO in a 2015 interview. Gibson earned respect and popularity on a national scale. In 1976, he became president of the US Conference of Mayors. It was then Gibson made famous the phrase ‘Wherever the central cities of America are going, Newark will get there first.’ “I went