Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s link to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is coming under scrutiny as he makes a bid to become New Jersey’s next governor. Farrakhan, 91, has been ...

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan delivers a speech and talks about President Donald Trump at the Watergate Hotel on Nov. 16, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan embrace, left, after the now gubernatorial candidate introduced the preacher as a "moral authority" during a 2004 address.

The 2004 video is not the only instance of Baraka aligning himself with Farrakhan. In 2012, Baraka, then principal of Newark's Central High School, invited Farrakhan to speak to over 1,000 students.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel welcomed the help of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to help stop the violence in Chicago neighborhoods. Farrakhan has a history of making anti-Semitic statements ...

Services will be held Saturday for Richard (Naba’a) B. Muhammad, a staunch defender of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and longtime editor-in-chief of The Final Call newspaper.