New perspectives on how history is made
Genora Johnson and the women of Flint, Michigan were the backbone of the sit-down strike campaigns that secured union recognition at General Motors.
The key question is whether Americans will respond to Zika and lead poisoning as problems predominantly of the poor, met with pity and a shrug of the shoulders, or as a call to arms.
America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
During the 1890s and early 1900s, epidemics of water-related lead poisoning occurred all across the United States and Europe.
Structural inequality and environmental degradation are the twin problems today in Flint -- as they have been for more than half a century.
An estimated three to six million miles of lead pipes across our country still carry water, and most all of them are vulnerable to similar dangers.
This is the long awful lesson of impoverished communities.
GM introduced lead into gasoline. The Flint River was where lead in cars wound up.
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