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Newark Eagles Little League team player William Jones gives Coach Rodney Mason a high-five as he arrives at practice at the practice field at Weequahic Park on May 15, 2008. (Photo by Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger)

An ex-offender's crusade to bring baseball to the inner city

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NBC NEWS - In his new book, “A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City,” reporter Jonathan Schuppe chronicles that effort through the story of a fledgling Little League team, its improbable coach and inspiring players...
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Naughty By Nature (Gety Images)

Is rap group Naughty By Nature breaking up?

Kyle Harvey

Hip-hop group Naughty By Nature have been a mainstay in the culture for over two decades but according to a tweet by founding member Treach, the New Jersey tr…

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Sharpe James listens during a press conferance where police announced the arrest of Sherry Murphy in connection with the death of one boy and the abuse of two others January 9, 2003 in Newark, New Jersey. Murphy was allegedly caring for the boys when police discovered one boy dead and the other two dehydrated and near starvation and locked in a squalid basement apartment. (Photo by Monika Graff/Getty Images)

Arrest made in mugging of ex-Newark mayor Sharpe James

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Police have made an arrest in the mugging of the former mayor of New Jersey's largest city...
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Cory Booker attends The 2009 Emery Awards and 30th Anniversary of the Hetrick-Martin Institute at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 10, 2009 in New York City.

5 Twitter tips from 'super mayor' Cory Booker

Helen A.S. Popkin, NBC News
NBC NEWS - With more than 1.3 million followers, charismatic and social network savvy Newark mayor @CoryBooker has more Twitter acolytes than the population of the city he governs...
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Cory Booker attends The 2013 Greater New York Human Rights Campaign Gala at The Waldorf=Astoria on February 2, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images)

3 men charged for viral video of naked man beating

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with a disturbing video that shows a young man stripped naked and whipped in broad daylight on the streets of New Jersey...
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Mayor Cory Booker (City of Newark, New Jersey) speaks at the Tech:Crunch Disrupt SF 2012 Conference on September 10, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by C Flanigan/Getty Images)

Cory Booker helps rescue freezing dog

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theGRIO REPORT - After ABC Eyewitness News reporter Toni Yates tweeted a message to Newark mayor Cory Booker about residents leaving their dogs out in the cold, he took action...
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Cory Booker's Lautenberg challenge

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thGRIO REPORT - New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg is so far strongly resisting any suggestion that he should step aside and allow fellow Democrat and Newark mayor Cory Booker to replace him in the U.S Senate, repeatedly blasting Booker in public and refusing to say if he will retire...
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker

Newark mayor Cory Booker turns seized guns into jewelry

Yesha Callahan, Clutch Magazine
Last week on Rachel Maddow’s show, Newark Mayor Cory Booker promoted his jewelry line, “The Caliber Collection.” The bracelets, with prices ranging from $175-375, are made from the metal of 250 guns and bullet casings seized by the Newark Police Department.
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Senate Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Subcommittee Chairman Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) presides over a hering on 'Superstorm Sandy: The Devastating Impact on the Nation's Largest Transportation Systems.' December 6, 2012 in Washington, DC. Lhota, Shumer and others testified before the subcommittee about the need for more federal dollars for Superstorm Sandy recovery. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NJ senator compares Cory Booker to child who needs a spanking

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theGRIO REPORT - The awkward tension between incumbent New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg and the upstart Newark mayor, Cory Booker, who wants to take his seat has reached a fever pitch...
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Artist Kara Walker attends the opening reception for the reinstallation of contemporary art from the collection at MOMA on June 29, 2010 in New York, City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Newark library displays drawing of slave having sex with white man

Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A library that covered up a drawing of a black female slave having sex with a white man after workers found it inappropriate is displaying it again...
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