Detroit — Family and colleagues on Wednesday remembered former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick as fiercely devoted to her ...

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick remembered the Detroit Democrat as a trailblazer and the strong leader of her family during a ...

Family, colleagues and friends remembered Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick as a "beautiful" and "powerful" advocate for the city of ...

Former Detroit Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has died at age 80. Her family announced her death Wednesday in a ...

Former Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has died at the age of 80 on Tuesday. Kilpatrick represented Michigan's 13th and 15th districts from 1997 to 2011. She is the mother of former Detroit ...

Former Michigan Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, who previously chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, has died at the age of 80. A political force in her native Detroit, Kilpatrick served in the ...

Cheeks Kilpatrick was the second Black woman from Michigan to serve in the U.S. House and became a leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.

Carolyn Jean Cheeks Kilpatrick, an assertive advocate for Detroit and Black owned business, died on October 7 in Atlanta. She ...

*While President Trump is passing out pardons like candy, one person not deserving of such an honor is ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — so says a top federal prosecutor in southeast Michigan. “So ...

The Huffington Post is reporting that a jury has found former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick guilty of multiple counts of racketeering and exortion, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire ...