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The Flint water crisis was a 2010s public health crisis which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria. [2]
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Eric Mays, a Flint, Michigan, city council member known for activism during the city’s water crisis and for disruptive behavior at public meetings, has died.
In that time, Michigan started and then stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; criminal charges were brought and then dismissed against several officials for deaths suspected of ...
A Michigan judge threw out felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires' disease. The ...
A court order and a Scripps News investigation found city failures in the aftermath of a water crisis that poisoned Flint children. Fed Judge finds City of Flint in contempt, citing Scripps News probe
Residents and activists say the way state prosecutors handled the Flint Water Crisis criminal cases is a disappointment to the community.
#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.
Flint residents say they still don't trust the water: "This is an atrocity that should not have happened to nobody," said Claudia Perkins, 71. Flint marks 10 years since water crisis began, but ...