Mary Sheffield (Screenshot from campaign video)

Detroit Free Press investigative reporter M.L. Elrick, host of the weekly podcast ML Soul of Detroit, along with his co-host Marc Fellhauer, talk about why the media felt compelled to dig up and report on the secretive marriage last weekend of Detroit Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield.

The co-hosts argue that the public has a right to know who she is marrying and whether that person has business with the city. Last Sunday at the Godfrey Hotel in Corktown, Sheffield married Rickey Jackson Jr., who works for the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan as the program manager of Project Play.

"If they had put out an announcement and just a statement saying this is gonna happen, we wouldn't have had anybody there," Elrick explained. The Free Pre

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