Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up (blackamericaweb.com) The former top aide to Detroit Mayor Kwame ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up According to the Associated Press, Christine Beatty, the ex-aide ...

The former top aide to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick chose to go to trial Monday, rejecting prosecutors' offers that included pleading guilty to two felony counts and serving at least 60 days in jail ...

Before 2008, Christine Beatty, as the chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was a celebrated strategist with a promising future in politics. That changed the morning the Detroit Free Press ...

Just hours before he spoke at a Republican function, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was accused of being dishonest again — this time about his address. Specifically, federal prosecutors allege ...

DETROIT (AP) _ Just days after facing charges in a text message scandal that threatens to send him to prison, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick rallied supporters and again vowed to remain in office. During a ...

DETROIT – Local 4 is inside the courtroom for the federal corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick's dad Bernard Kilpatrick and his childhood friend Bobby Ferguson. Each ...

*The downward spiral of Detroit seemed like a forgone conclusion, according to the city’s former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who stated that Detroiters “are going to begging for a [white] savior.” In ...