In a flurry of pardons and commutations in President Donald Trump’s last hours in office, one name in particular stuck out to Detroiters: their former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. On today’s episode, we’ll talk to a longtime Detroit journalist about the mark Kilpatrick and his conviction left on the city and what might be next now that he’s a free man.  

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Chastity Pratt, education bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal

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