Fox digital review: The progressive Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka, one of the leading Democratic candidates for the Governor of New Jersey, has a history of associating with alleged women’s abusers and has been accused of fostering a toxic work environment for women in his administration, a digital review of Fox News.
Baraka, who has been mayor of Newark since 2014, hired his brother, Amiri Baraka Jr., as Chief of Staff. In June 2020, Sebrivious Scott, a woman who was hired through a pre -entry program of prisoners, accused Baraka Jr. to silence -after considering the concern about being sexually assaulted.
Scott alleged that he spoke to Baraka Jr. As to be sexually assaulted by his head and he was denied full -time for rejected sexual favors, Real Garden State reported.
Instead of helping -Baraka Jr. He allegedly informed Scott that no measure would be made to address his complaints and said, “Don’t come here complaining -you should be happy to have a job.”
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Newark Mayor, Ras Baraka, talks after leaving the court on May 15, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (Getty)
Scott also stated that his supervisors ignored his queries on his full -time application, including Mayor Baraka. Scott claimed numerous men hired through the re -entry program, obtained full -time positions when completing the program while waiting.
In a 2020 Facebook publication that reacts to another user who published Support for Scott along with the Status of the Status of the Real Garden and a comment on “Keep Your Head Up Cuzzo”, Scott wrote, “Cuzz I’m trying. I only need all the support I can get against these monsters. I am not afraid.”
When Fox News Digital contacted the comments, Scott said, “They were actually established after fighting this since 2018.” However, he refused to enter into details of the settlement, citing his lawyer’s advice.
Baraka also hired another brother, Obalaji Jones, as a youth opportunity coordinator who was later accused of sexual assault. In 2017, Dannisha Clyburn, a former employee in Newark, accused Jones of storming -sexually in 2013 and attempted sexual assault in 2015, reported Tapinto Livingston.
According to Clyburn, Jones called her in a dark room and touched her inappropriately without her consent in a Baraka 2013 political speech. He also stated that Jones tried to assault it again by calling it in a private room during a children’s event in 2015.
Clyburn, who previously served in prison, said that he had been a political supporter of Baraka, but was presented because he did not want to see victims of other women.
“Your brother Obalaji, is another monster,” Clyburn published on Facebook, directing directly to Baraka.
“Your brother is better for you to get it out of here. He is a predator. It’s a threat to our city. And if you know, you taught us better. If you see something, you say something. I knew that of you, Ras Baraka,” Clyburn said, according to Politico’s New Jersey game book. “So I’ve seen something, I felt something and say something. I speak for each person, for each woman, every male who cannot present and is afraid to present.”
The former Newark Consell, Gayle Chaveeyfield Jenkins, who directed against Baraka by mayor in 2018, accused the Baraka administration of widespread abuse in which many women were pressured in sexual favors in exchange for jobs, according to a 2018 report by Tapinto Newark.
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka speaks during a press conference at Newark City Council, New Jersey. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Jenkins said during a council meeting: “ I am not in Team Baraka for a number of reasons, but one of the reasons is his abuse of power. I cannot believe that any of my colleagues in the Council … that none of these women has come to you and told you that they had to happen until they had to have sex to get a job, or they have been abused or who have been stopped, or have been ridiculous.
Three years later, a lawsuit filed by a former employee in Newark said that Baraka ignored the legislation by calling it an independent working group to investigate the sexual harassment claims filed by Newark employees, according to Chaneyfiled Jenkins in a NJ.com report.
According to the lawsuit, the legislation created an independent working group to investigate the claims filed by Newark employees. It is supposed that the jury of five members had to be designated by the mayor and include a police officer retired from outside Newark, a member of the clergy, two members of the public and a final member to be nominated by Rutgers University. However, Baraka never named a member of the working group.

Newark Mayor, Ras Baraka, speaks in the “State of Power Power Tour” in Newark, New Jersey. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)
Baraka has also been associated with the alleged abuser Kiburi Tucker, who was tried in a Newark Municipal Court in 1996 for allegations sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old girl, reported a file filed with The Star-Lludger.
The girl’s parents filed a complaint, and Tucker was accused of aggravated criminal sexual contact, criminal containment and endangerating the well -being of a child to maintain the victim and affect his body, according to online records reviewed by Fox News Digital. He would eventually fulfill a four -year prison sentence between 1997 and 2001 after declaring guilty of aggravated allegations and drug possession.
Later, Tucker would have more legal problems, which led him to serve a 17 -month prison sentence due to wire fraud and tax evasion after accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars on personal use expenses with a non -profit resources of children started by his father. After leaving prison, Tucker told Tapinto Newark that Baraka was his “best friend” and “he was doing a job.”
Tucker has remained near Baraka, as evidenced by several Facebook publications in recent years and months. Tucker, who was a commercial member with Baraka’s wife for several years, has published several times in support of the Baraka Gubernatorial campaign several times this month and as recently as this week.
On May 9, Tucker published several pictures of Baraka and supporters at an event, saying: “Let’s go! Post your V for victory in support of Mayor Baraka for the governor!”

Newark Mayor, Ras Baraka, talks to protesters outside Delaney Hall, a newly reopened immigration arrest center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Earlier this week, he also posted a photo that seems to be in a Baraka background collection in Cranford, New Jersey.
Baraka’s brother, Amiri, has also remained in the support of the Baraka candidacy for the governor, publishing about a next political event last week.
In 2022, the mayor also endorsed Louis Weber, a former Newark Police Agent who was aimed at the City Council, and was accused of sexual assault by a former female couple. Weber has denied the allegation and was not criminalized, Politico reported.
“It is interesting to me that these manufactured stories are not demonstrated and built in the Innuendo, the same as the mayor gains popularity and polls,” Fox News Digital Mark di ionno, a spokesman for Newark city, told Fox.

Representative Lamonica Mciver demands the release of Newark’s mayor, Ras Baraka, after his arrest while protesting outside an ice installation on May 9 in Newark, New Jersey. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)
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Baraka has dominated news headlines in recent weeks after being arrested outside an ice installation in Newark and was eventually accused of abusing.
After a court appearance last week, Baraka told journalists that he was unfairly directed.
“We believe they focused on it,” Baraka said. “I was the only person arrested. It is so. You know, I was the only person identified. I was the only person, you know, they put it in the cell. You know, the only person, I think he was in the fists in the whole process that is here this morning, going through this humiliation for these people.”
On Monday evening, the accusation was dropped against Baraka.
Fox News Digital contacted Baraka’s Gubernatorial campaign, his two brothers, Tucker and Clyburn and Jenkins, but did not receive an answer.
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