Ras Baraka

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Ras Baraka

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Ras Baraka is a politician and activist from Newark, New Jersey. He currently serves on Newark's city council representing the South Ward and is also principal of the city's Central High School. Baraka defeated then-councilman Oscar James II in a highly contested 2010 election, on a platform critical of Mayor Cory Booker. The election was documented on the Sundance reality television series Brick City, which stars Booker, Baraka and other Newark political and residential figures. Baraka was featured on singer Lauryn Hill's 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, as the narrator of several interludes on the album. Baraka and Hill also recorded an unreleased single together entitled "Hot Beverage in the Winter", which later featured on his spoken word album Shorty for Mayor. He is son of poet and activist Amiri Baraka and his wife Amina.