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The Flint water crisis is a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, was contaminated with lead and ...
Amariyanna "Mari" Copeny (born July 6, 2007), also known as Little Miss Flint, is an African-American youth activist from Flint, Michigan. She is best known for raising awareness about the Flint water crisis and for fundraising to support underprivileged children in her community and across the country.
Flint Town is an eight episode American documentary television series that was released on Netflix on March 2, 2018. [1] [2] [3] The documentary focuses on the thoughts and conflicted emotions of police officers serving to protect urban areas of Flint, Michigan struggling with poverty, crime, financially strapped public services and the Flint water crisis.
Mona Hanna (born 9 December 1976), [1] [2] [3] formerly known as Mona Hanna-Attisha, [4] is a pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint water crisis.
Walters became known for her role in exposing the Flint water crisis. [4] In 2014, her children started to suffer from several medical issues, like rashes, hair dropping blurry vision, and enlarged kidney. [1] Walters started to lose her eyelashes. [5] She then started to make the link with water that started to change color and to flow brown.
FLINT, Mich. — Ten years ago, smiling politicians posed for cameras while pushing a button, swapping the main tap water source for this majority-Black, impoverished city to the Flint River ...
#JusticeForFlint was a charity event held on February 28, 2016, addressing the ongoing Flint water crisis in the U.S. state of Michigan.With the victims of the lead poisoning being predominantly black, the political scandal has been regarded as an example of racial inequalities in the U.S., and the charity event has been associated with the Black Lives Matter campaign.
Mays was an activist for the quality of Flint's water, being one of the first elected officials to question its quality during the Flint water crisis. [4] [16] [5] His constituents described him as often being the sole elected voice regarding the issue. [4] [5]