JoAnn Watson, who served on the Detroit City Council for a decade and was a pastor, radio personality and former executive director of the Detroit NAACP, has died. She was 72. A representative ...

(CBS DETROIT) - The funeral for former Detroit City Council member Reverend Dr. JoAnn Watson was held Saturday in Detroit at Fellowship Chapel. It was a celebration of a life spent in service to ...

Watson served on the Detroit City Council from 2003 through 2013. In her first run for office, she defeated presumed front-runner Gil Hill, a former Detroit police homicide chief who had become ...

The Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson’s legend reached well beyond the precincts of Detroit, where she was a formidable political leader of the City Council. In the vast realm of Black liberation ...

Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones said Monday the entire council family is "heartbroken" over the loss. Watson, who was headed to the University of Michigan Law School this fall ...

Watson, who was known as a trailblazer and civil rights icon, was born and raised in Detroit and served on the city council from 2003 to 2013. She was the first woman to serve as the executive ...

DETROIT – History was made this week when the Detroit City Council voted to appoint members ... Executive committee member Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson believes there is a long list of options.

(CBS DETROIT) - Former Detroit City Council member, the Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson, has died. She was 72. In a statement on Monday, Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield described Watson as a ...