The film, simply titled “Flint,” is set to premiere on October 28th. It’s downright shocking and sad that a movie about the devastating Flint, Michigan water crisis is here before the residents have clean and safe water available to them. Nevertheless, Lifetime’s new film Flint, which stars Queen Latifah and Jill Scott, and is based on […]
The move comes after the Flint City Council refused to approve a contract for a long-term clean water source. In the ongoing battle for clean water in Flint, Michigan, state officials on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the city on charges of “endangering public health,” reports The Boston Globe. The move comes after the Flint City […]
Either way, mocking anyone’s suffering isn’t funny. After getting dragged for making an insensitive joke about the Flint water crisis, Steve Harvey is now trying to explain himself. In a recent interview with AJC Radio & TV Talk, the talk show host claims that he wasn’t joking about the entire town’s residents—he was just engaging in light-hearted “trash talk” […]
Dave Chappelle was scheduled to perform at a benefit show for Flint, Michigan last year to assist victims of the city’s water crisis, but had to cancel the appearance. This week, he made up for his absence by donating every bit of his $50,000 paycheck from a make-up gig, which took place Wednesday (June 7) at […]
Let’s file this under, “not surprised.” Phil Stair, a White sales manager at Genesee County Land Bank in Flint, Michigan, resigned on June 5 just days after it was discovered he used the n-word to describe African-American members of the community. According to MLive, Michele M. Wildman, the bank’s executive director, accepted Stair’s letter of resignation. […]
Jeff and Rhonda Grayer’s W.T. Stevens Construction will help bring back clean water to Flint residents. “This is home for me and my family and I wasn’t going to sit back and do nothing as a person or as a businessman,” Jeff Grayer entrepreneur—former NBA star and Flint, Michigan—told TNJ.com. https://twitter.com/VoteMisskeith/status/865965724891836416 Grayer and his […]
Flint is a city located 70 miles north of Detroit and inhabits a little over 98,000 people, 41.2 percent of them living below the poverty line and a median household income of $24,862.00. 56.6 percent of Flint residents are African-American. While Flint was once a thriving automotive, industrial city, when GM began to downsize in the […]
getty image 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 […]
It’s been three years and the long-suffering residents of Flint, Michigan are still without clean water. The fact that something as essential as drinking water is not available to Flint residents is unfathomable, especially considering that we live in the highly privileged United States. Unfortunately the current news for those living in Flint is even […]
His efforts are to curb one of the worst public health disasters in the U.S. B ig Sean adds his name to the list of several high-profile celebrities who have lent their time and efforts to raise money for the Flint water crisis, according to The Detroit News. On Tuesday’s episode of “The Daily […]
Administrators cautioned residents to keep using filtered water as city’s old lead pipes are replaced. UPDATE: Tuesday, January 24 7:40 PM ET Michigan state officials said Tuesday that lead levels in Flint drinking water have fallen below the federal limits, reports Reuters. From Reuters: [With the news, State officials] cautioned residents to keep using filtered […]
Gov. Snyder says the Flint Water Deal is focused on intermediate and long-term actions to help the people in the city. Millions of dollars are heading to Flint, Michigan, to help deal with the water crisis after Congress finally agreed to funnel funds into the city. Flint received the funding after Democrats put up a fight […]