We have seen not just White flight but Black middle class leaving the city ... so when schools went remote last week because of the water crisis, they had to scramble to ensure that children ...

You’ve likely read about the water crisis in Jackson ... As the saying goes, when white people catch a cold, Black folks get the flu. And in a city that’s more than 80% Black, there are ...

The water crisis in Mississippi’s capital ... More than 80% of Jackson's residents are Black, the result of a gradual exodus of white, wealthier residents into the suburbs after the racial ...

in communities that are majority Black. In a news conference Tuesday, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said the water crisis has developed due to "a set of accumulated problems based on ...

But the water crisis is about more than a lack of funds ... that cities must equalize funding for public services in Black and White neighborhoods. It proved to be a landmark case that did ...

The particulars of this moment in Jackson’s water crisis involve complexities ... Jackson is a Black majority city and Mississippi is governed by a White Republican supermajority that refuses ...

In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis ... to majority-white areas in ...

For Eubanks, the root cause of the water crisis can be found at the state capitol. White, conservative political leaders, he said, do not want to invest in a majority Black city. And when they ...

there were problems in Flint’s schools before the water crisis made headlines. A decade ago, in 2014, roughly 56 percent of Flint’s population was Black and 37 percent was White, but four ...

One year after the water system in ... the population of white residents dropped from 52 percent to 15 percent. Today, Jackson is more than 80 percent Black and 1 in 4 people live in poverty ...

The global water crisis is one of the most urgent and complex challenges facing humanity today. More than 2.2 billion people lack access to safe water, and 3.5 billion lack access to safely ...