Cavanagh, the precocious eldest son of former Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, was a month shy of turning 14 when the 1967 riot began on a hot July night. "I remember getting up the next morning ...

Cavanagh was on the state's high court from 1983 to 2014, which is tied for Michigan's longest supreme court tenure ever.

Michael Cavanagh, a Detroit native who was a longtime Michigan Supreme Court justice and father of current Chief Justice ...

The distinction was not won by accident — unless that accident is Jerome Cavanagh, the outsider who in 1961 toppled an arteriosclerotic regime to become Detroit’s nonpartisan mayor.

A progressive mayor: Mayor Jerome Cavanagh was a liberal visionary. In the years before the riot, "he moved farther on racial issues than any other big city mayor," wrote historian Kevin Boyle.

Despite being hailed as a “model city” by media pundits and politicians for the progressive politics of its white mayor, Jerome Cavanagh, African-American residents suffered from much of the ...

Mayor Jerome Cavanagh said all the right things. The city had a growing black middle class. The 1960s’ Detroit leader had secured large sums of federal funds for poverty programs. Promising ...

He spoke with Mark Cavanagh, son of late Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh. David Maraniss talked about his book Once in a Great City, in which he profiles the people and recalls the events that ...