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Regan, EPA's first Black administrator, aims for a lead-free America. Flint's former mayor has a message for the powers that be.

Infrastructure, which affects the very water we drink. and so the issue of lead and pipes, when water comes into the drinking water, it doesnt have lead on the planet. when it goes through the distribution system and to your home, there is a chance it can pick up lead from aging pipes. when you live in a city that has very old pipes, or when you live in a home that has old pipes in that home, then you increase the chances that lead will be able to reach your drinking water. thats what happened i...

More likely to not have access to clean -- i mean to indoor plumbing, tiffany. >> wow. >> in this day and age. >> that is so hard to imagine. kim, ill tell you, it is not just the drinking supply of water thats drying up. it is also these lead pipes. this is a big deal. the biden administration is trying to replace all the lead pipes. something interesting is the racial disparity in this. it is stark. the cities in michigan, ben harbor, on the heels of glint. -- flint. 84% of the people are blac...

Take immediate action to write a new voting rights law. what would you like to see in that measure. 50 states, separate and unequal schemes of voting, we really need the constitutional right to vote. i would like to see that. i would like to see what we have loost be regained. and if it needs to be expanded, it might be. emergency management schemes from detroit to ben harbor. with that person having the right to sell off assets, the right to end labor union contracts, theres a real attack up on...

Think we have seen thus far with all the racial slurs and racist jokes, even the joke that came out from a federal judge in montana, that we dont live in a post-racial society. public act 4 has been implemented in a way where over 50% of the african americans in michigan their vote is null and void. benton harbor, flint, highland park, coming to detroit, so i do believe there is a racial component to the implementation, but not just race but also class, because african americans and then low inc...

Capitol from flint, detroit, ben harbor. they are asking their votes count as much as anyone elses vote counts in michigan. in essence the minority asking the majority to vote for the minoritys right to have a say. african americans in michigan have asked this question before. back in 1850, 1850 the state held a referendum on equal sufferage for colored persons. they called the negro sufferage issue and it was again no. african americans in detroit finally celebrated in 1870 when the u.s. consti...