DETROIT – Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the former U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District and mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has died.
Local 4 got the news of Carolyn’s passing on Tuesday (Oct. 7).
Born in Detroit, Carolyn taught in the city’s schools before serving 18 years in the Michigan State House and then Congress from 1997 to 2011…