‘She gave everything’: Detroit honors trailblazing Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick

On a crisp Monday in Detroit, a steady stream of residents filed into the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to pay their respects to Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. Limousines lined the street, and a car overflowing with red flowers, the crimson hue a symbol of her sorority, set the tone for a community remembering a longtime public servant.