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Overview It is widely recognized that the environmental justice movement first gained traction in 1982 in a predominately African-American community in Warren County, North Carolina.  University of Michigan professors Bunyan Bryant (a graduate of EMU) and Paul Mohai were pioneers in the movement.  Bunyan Bryant—who in 1972 had become the first African American to join the SNRE faculty—attended a meeting at the Federation of Southern Cooperative in Sumter County.  Shortly after, he joined with Professor Mohai in Ann Arbor. In the early 1990s, during the Clinton years, it was the period ...

Crosshairs on this. his own task force laid the blame, much of the blame for this, on the michigan department of environmental quality, said they did not pay enough attention to these reports, to the complaints about the water. the reports that were coming in about the high lead levels in the water, he is saying -- he's trying to focus the attention on moving forward. today he met with karen weaver, mayor of flint, who was elected just this november, the situation with the water played a big role in her campaign. she threw a lifeline. she's standing with him. she says, agrees it is time to loo...

. good evening. coming to you from the state that was at the epicenter of donald trump's slim but seismic victory in 2017. almost no one expected michigan to vote for him. heading into election day polls showed hillary clinton with the lead but in the end, trump won with a margin of 11,000 votes. the shock has repeated itself almost every day of his presidency. way back before the election there was one person who saw this coming. film maker michael moore, a flint native who wrote about the five reasons he thought trump