Text OS to 24042 to join 95.5 The Lou’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). Jaden Smith’s foundation First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church have teamed to bring cleaner water to Flint, Michigan. Jaden’s foundation, Just Goods, donated a portable water filtration system to the church called the Water Box, which mirrors the process the […]
Queen Latifah and Jill Scott are returning to Lifetime, this time for a movie about the Flint Water Crisis. The nation was deeply concerned about the crisis in Flint, Michigan, at the top of 2016 as we learned that politicans had allowed the tap water to be rendered undrinkable. We were shocked to learn how […]
The after-shock of releasing a bomb of this magnitude will reverberate further than a physical assessment after the dust settles.
This woman’s blatantly negligent actions added insult to an already endangered population. Twelve people died, by the way.
The year long report released by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission indicts not only individuals but systemic racism and offers solutions so that another Flint will never happen again.
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/817172520604344320 *Sigh* Where do we begin? https://twitter.com/Slim_Kanye/status/817465205122891777 Twitter users wasted no time telling Cher and the Lifetime network how foolish they look producing a made-for-TV movie about a human rights disaster that isn’t even close to a resolution. https://twitter.com/KeishaIvette/status/817248120144699395 We trust that Cher, her co-producers (Katie Couric, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron) and Oscar-nominated director […]
Three weeks after a court demanded that the state of Michigan send bottled water to residents who are still impacted by contaminated water, state officials are still trying to fight that order.
Michigan officials filed a court motion while they appeal the decision in a lawsuit brought by several advocacy groups.
Several Flint Michigan parents sue school officials for providing inadequate services to their children. Exposure to the city's lead-contaminated water has caused learning disabilities and behavioral problems for many children.
Health officials report an increase of bacterial illness in Flint, Michigan. A reduction in hand washing to avoid contaminated municipal water may contribute to the outbreak.
A Flint, Michigan pastor interrupted Donald Trump's stump speech at her historically Black church. The candidate had agreed to focus on the water crisis and its impact, but veered instead into Hillary bashing.
Flint's former city administrator filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Mayor Karen Weaver. She alleges that Weaver fired her to cover up a scheme to redirect charity funds to her campaign.