Mildred Crump Archives - New Jersey Globe

Baraka’s fourth term comes with some asterisks

May 18, 2026 6:42 pmMay 18, 2026 11:57 pm

There was good news and bad news for Newark Mayor Ras Baraka in last week’s non-partisan municipal election: he was re-elected by a wide margin, but not as impressively as his last two races; and he retains a council majority,...

2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

May 10, 2025 9:41 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in this year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

Mildred Crump, longtime Newark councilwoman, dies at 86

December 1, 2024 4:38 pmDecember 2, 2024 5:50 pm

Trailblazer Mildred C. Crump, 86, died this morning. She was a popular and beloved Newark leader and activist known for her compassion who became the first Black woman to serve on the City Council. During her nearly four decades in...

A brief electoral history of Ras Baraka

April 25, 2024 1:22 pmJuly 25, 2024 2:26 pm

If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is elected governor of New Jersey in next year’s election, he’d make a lot of history. He’d be the first Black person elected to lead the state; in fact, no major party in New Jersey...

Baraka’s at-large council slate wins unopposed in Newark

May 10, 2022 8:01 pm

The New Jersey Globe projects that four at-large candidates for Newark City Council – incumbents Carlos Gonzalez, Luis Quintana, and Larry Crump and newcomer Louise Scott-Rountree – have been elected unopposed. All four ran on the slate of Mayor Ras...

A look ahead at May’s municipal elections

January 21, 2022 5:37 pmFebruary 1, 2022 10:14 am

It’s always election season in New Jersey. This May, voters in many of New Jersey’s biggest municipalities, as well as some of its smallest, will hold municipal elections to determine who will lead their towns for the next four years....