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

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

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

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 U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the Detroit Democrat who died Oct. 7, was celebrated as a champion for her city and family leader.

In 1978, mentored and encouraged by iconic Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, Kilpatrick was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives. In 1996, she became the second Black woman from Michigan ...

Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, a Detroit Democrat who, over seven terms, rose to become chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and served on the powerful Appropriations Committee, has ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered flags at the capitol lowered to honor a former congresswoman who died recently.

On a crisp Monday in Detroit, a steady stream of residents filed into the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American ...

DETROIT(AP) — Former Detroit Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has died at age 80, according to her family. The family announced Cheeks Kilpatrick's death Wednesday in a statement, calling her a ...