At its inaugural event, the A’Dorian Murray-Thomas Civic Association hosted a live-streamed, candid conversation between two native sons of Newark. Once rival mayoral candidates, Newark, NJ Mayor Ras J. Baraka and KIPP Schools CEO Shavar Jeffries faced off in the 2014 mayoral contest. Nearly a decade later, the two leaders sat down for their first-ever public conversation—reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the future of the great City of Newark.
