Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor whose spectacular rise and fall — he was convicted of 10 felonies in 2008 and currently faces more charges — made headlines nationwide, visited Tavis Smiley ...

DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and helped steer a crisis-laden ...

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I really messed up. Those words today from the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, before he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison ...

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court could be his last chance at freedom before the year 2037. While ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pays his debt to society serving ...

Free at last. Disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, once known as the city's "hip-hop" mayor," was released from state prison on parole this morning after serving 14 months. He exited the ...

A jury convicted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on a slew of corruption charges on Monday, just days after the struggling city's finances were placed under emergency management by the state. He ...