MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Four years after the Michigan city’s water supply was unintentionally poisoned, the events covered up and the physical and psychological health of its residents shaken to the core, Jada and her younger sister, Jallyah, are among dozens of ordinary people still fighting to provide that most very basic of needs – safe drinking water.
I got the idea after Flint Town appeared on Netflix and I started watching it, and I was thinking it was just focussed on all the negativity,” Jada said, sitting outside her uncle’s house in Flint’s North End. “I wanted to find a way to show the positive things we’re trying to do. That was when we started the 810H2O movement.”