2024 InsiderNJ African American List in Honor of Black History Month

Booker        1. Cory Booker The U.S. Senator from New Jersey. Former Mayor of Newark. Fabiana Pierre-Louis The first African American woman in the state of New Jersey to become an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court occupies a position of gravitas. LeRoy Jones The Democratic State Party Chairman (and Essex County Democratic Committee chair). Tahesha Way The Lieutenant Governor for the State of New Jersey. Successor to the late Sheila Oliver. Baraka Ras Baraka The Mayor of Newark, running for Governor in 2025. Payne Donald Payne, Jr. The bow tied Congressman from the 10th District hails from one of New Jersey’s most distinguished African-American political families, son of New Jersey’s first African American Congressman, the late U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, Sr. Watson-Coleman. Bonnie Watson Coleman The 12th District Congresswoman made history in 2015 when she assumed the oath of office as New Jersey’s first African American Congresswoman. A former Democratic State Party chair with a strong and independent progressive record, Watson Coleman keeps her own counsel and makes her own political moves. A survivor and a fighter. Tony Vauss Tony Vauss The no-nonsense Mayor of Irvington won a third term in office in 2022 with a walkover election....