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Sheila Cockrel
Ken’s Wife
American politician and consultant. She was a member of the Detroit City Council from 1994 to 2009.
Ken Cockrel Jr.
Ken’s Son
Journalist, nonprofit executive, businessman, and former politician who served as the 73rd mayor of Detroit, from September 2008 to May 2009.
David Wellman
Ken’s Childhood Friend,
Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz
Harvey Ovshinsky
Founder of the Fifth Estate newspaper
Elliott Hall
Ken’s Co-Council
Mike Hamlin
Ken’s Best Friend
Started the league of revolutionary black workers with Ken.
John Conyers
U.S. House of Representatives
From Michigan (1965 - 2017)
Dan Georgakas
Co-Author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
Herb Boyd
Ken’s Friend
Professor, Black Studies
City College of New York
Heather Anne Thompson
2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Historian, author, activist, professor
Jeff Taft
Criminal Defense Attorney
Co-Council for Hayward Brown
Dennis Archer
Mayor of Detroit
(1994 - 2001)