Amiri Baraka 
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/18/2020
Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor
by Andrew Grim
Newark’s experience cautions today’s activists to be wary of channeling the urgency, the radicalism, the moral authority of this current moment into electoral politics.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1-21-14
Cory Booker Never Spoke for Newark Like Amiri Baraka Did
by Jelani Cobb
Amiri Baraka was a poet and activist, and he's the key to understanding modern Newark.
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