S2 E10: Right Here, Right Now

Crimetown

Jun 27, 201931:14News & Politics

When Mayor Coleman Young dies after twenty years in office, he leaves a yawning vacuum in Detroit’s power structure. But a successor quickly arises: a young, ambitious state legislator named Kwame Kilpatrick. He’s charis...

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