Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, left, is running to become New Jersey’s next governor. His brother Amiri, known as Middy, is his chief of staff in Newark.
As Newark Mayor Ras Baraka campaigns to become New Jersey’s next governor, his professional, political, and personal relationship with his brother and chief of staff could provide a glimpse of a future Baraka administration.
Amiri “Middy” Baraka Jr., who has been by his brother’s side as Ras Baraka rose from community activist to councilman to mayor to potential governor, is a controversial figure in the state’s largest city, someone whose supporters say is tough because he has to be — but whose critics liken to a lawbreaker…