Left: Volunteers carry bottles of water at a drinking water distribution site in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, after pumps at the water treatment plant failed, leading to the emergency ...

A special event in Jackson is shining a light on Mississippi’s painful history of racial violence while promoting healing and community resilience.

The two cases Wooten and nearly 500 others picked up at the site in south Jackson one day contained just under nine gallons (30 liters). That’s less than 3% of the roughly 300 gallons (1,136 ...

Since August, faucets in Jackson, Mississippi have been sputtering out nonpotable water. An investigation reveals an abyss of political paralysis, impoverishment, dilapidated infrastructure, crime ...

More than 140,000 residents in Jackson, Mississippi haven't had clean drinking water for a month. Fixing the water system in the majority-Black city could cost up to $1 billion, according to the ...

The water crisis that has left residents of Jackson, Mississippi, struggling to bathe, cook, and flush their toilets has been decades in the making. For years, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba ...

And when it comes to water scarcity and contamination, they say working-class communities of color are most vulnerable. Jackson’s population is more than 80% Black and the poverty level is 24.5% ...

Jackson's population is more than 80% Black and the poverty level is 24.5%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Majority-Black Flint, Michigan, has struggled to remove lead from its water since 2014.

Mississippi Students Water Crisis Advocacy Team coordinator Maisie Brown, counts out the cases the team will home deliver to families from their Jackson, Miss., storage locker, Sept. 8, 2022.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Carey Wooten spent nearly seven weeks hunting for safe drinking water for herself, her two children and three dogs after clocking out each day as a Taco Bell manager, so… ...