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Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, lamented that the city "failed to protect us" after filing suit over a failing water plant contaminating the city's water supply.
Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images(JACKSON, Miss.) -- As Jackson, Mississippi, continues efforts to recover from the city's water crisis this summer, residents have filed a class action lawsuit against former and current city officials, as well as infrastructure engineering companies, for their alleged role in neglecting or worsening a "foreseeable" public health crisis,
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- As Jackson, Mississippi, continues efforts to recover from the city's water crisis this summer, residents have filed a class action lawsuit
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Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, former mayor Tony Yarber, former public works directors Kishia Powell, Robert Miller and Jerriot Smash, the Siemens Corporation, Siemens Industry, Inc. and Trilogy Engineering Services LLC were named as defendants.
Mississippi remains the most underdeveloped area of the United States and African Americans are being oppressed and super-exploited Water systems throughout the United States are in serious disrepair and decline while corporate interests continue to dominate the political priorities of municipal and state governments. Jackson, Mississippi, the capital and the…