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Trailblazer: U.S. Senator Cory Booker

January 19, 2026 12:22 amJanuary 18, 2026 10:25 pm

Cory Booker is the first Black candidate to win statewide office in New Jersey. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2013, winning a special election to replace the late Frank R. Lautenberg. Booker sought the 2020 Democratic...

Trailblazer: Senator Ronald Rice

January 19, 2026 12:13 amJanuary 18, 2026 10:20 pm

An iconic Newark maverick whose boyhood in the South under Jim Crow laws shaped Ronald Rice’s lifelong mission as a fierce and unwavering advocate of social justice and racial equality. He was unwavering in his advocacy of the underprivileged and...

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...

Labor Leader: The story of Tom Giblin’s magnificent political career

September 1, 2025 12:15 amAugust 31, 2025 11:20 pm

Thomas P. Giblin got hooked on New Jersey politics at the age of seven, when his father won a seat on the Essex County Board of Freeholders in 1954. Over the last eight decades, he’s had a front-row seat watching...

Six file to replace McIver in Newark’s Central Ward

August 21, 2025 10:37 pmAugust 22, 2025 9:05 am

Six candidates have filed to run in a non-partisan November special election to fill the Newark Central Ward city council seat left vacant last fall when Democrat LaMonica McIver resigned to take her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives....

Trailblazer: Senator Ronald Rice

January 20, 2025 12:11 amJanuary 19, 2025 9:09 pm

An iconic Newark maverick whose boyhood in the South under Jim Crow laws shaped Ronald Rice’s lifelong mission as a fierce and unwavering advocate of social justice and racial equality. He was unwavering in his advocacy of the underprivileged and...

Trailblazer: U.S. Senator Cory Booker

January 20, 2025 12:10 amJanuary 19, 2025 9:06 pm

Cory Booker is the first Black candidate to win statewide office in New Jersey. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2013, winning a special election to replace the late Frank R. Lautenberg. Booker sought the 2020 Democratic...