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The highest ranking official in the Michigan health department has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to the Flint water crisis. Nick Lyon is accused of not warning the public of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which resulted in at least one death, according to the Chicago Tribune. Lyon’s charges signify the highest strike to […]

In his recently released comedy special on Netflix, Dave Chappelle joked that he didn’t make an appearance in Flint, Mich. because he got an invitation to hang out with Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. It’s safe to say he felt he owed them a little something  because he recently donated $50,000 from a Michigan show […]

Whenever the government steps in to try and help residents in Flint, Mich., something always seems to go wrong. In what should be viewed as a step forward, thousands of families in Flint will receive nutritional aid to help prevent the effects of lead exposure. The effort will cost an additional $7 million in nutritional […]

The good news? A $100 million grant in federal funding is on its way to approval to help the residents of Flint, Mich. The bad news? Thousands of residents could lose their homes because they haven’t been paying for the toxic water that’s running through their pipes. 

Residents in Flint, Michigan still don’t have clean water. Is it clean enough to be under the federal limit? Yes. But it’s not clean enough for local officials to allow people to drink it unfiltered with a clear conscience. As a result, more than 1,700 residents have joined together to file a lawsuit against the the […]

The water in Fling, Mi. still isn’t safe to drink. Officials made an announcement on Tuesday to declare that the water’s lead and copper content was below the federal limit. But they also warned that it would take at least a year for the water to be safe enough for them to drink from the […]

Congressional Republicans have closed a year-long investigation into the events that resulted in tens of thousands in being exposed to lead in their water supply. But the investigation failed to result in any new information that wasn’t already presented in the high profile hearings that found both the local government and the EPA responsible.

According to NPR, Mayor Karen Weaver of Flint, Michigan has been working to replace hundreds of lead pipes that contaminated the city’s water supply, while the House of Representatives just passed a bill allocating $170 million in aid the city of Flint. Progress is being made in the city; even so, residents are still reliant […]

Donald Trump is currently in the period of his presidential campaign where he’s trying to plug the holes in his voter base to win the election. One of those many, wide gaps is the black community. So, the Republican presidential candidate visited Flint, Michigan this week. His visit was…interesting.

A professor at the University of Michigan is responsible for the closure of a historically women’s-only lounge at Michigan State University. 

The people of Flint, MI have been understandably distrusting of local government officials’ claims that their tap water was clean enough to drink even with the use of filters. To help sway locals, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been drinking the same filtered water for weeks (even though this hasn’t been enough to keep residents […]

A long list of people have either sent support to or actually touched down in Flint, Michigan following the recent water crisis that affected so many of its citizens. But an 8-year-old girl may be responsible for bringing the biggest name yet. Mari Copeny, unofficially known as “Little Miss Flint,” wrote a letter to President […]