Lawrence Hamm, of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), joins us from Newark, New Jersey to talk about Black politics in that city. The late Sharpe James was mayor for a record setting 20 years before he was succeeded by Cory Booker. Current mayor Ras Baraka was recently arrested and briefly detained by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while protesting at an immigration detention facility and he is also running for governor of New Jersey. We discuss the trajectory of politics in Newark.
