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 Cheeks Kilpatrick, a former Democratic congresswoman from Detroit who brought millions in federal funds to her hometown, but whose career was undone partly by the legal travails of her indicted son, Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, died o… [1337 chars]
Source: The New York Times | Published: 2025-10-10T22:56:44Z
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