Following floods that overwhelmed Mississippi state capital’s water treatment facility in August, the city’s approximately 160,000 residents have regularly lacked access to safe drinking water and, in some cases, running water at all.\r\n\r\nMonths after the flooding, water pressure has been partially restored and some federal and state resources have been allocated to repair the water system. However, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says the state of Mississippi is not doing enough to help his city and its residents, more than 80 percent of whom are Black.\r\n\r\n“It's issues of environmental racism. It's a community that is not fully valued, and therefore the state does not see any responsibility or need to fund the residents of Jackson, fund these challenges,” Lumumba says.\r\n\r\nOn UpFront, Mayor Lumumba joins Marc Lamont Hill to discuss some of the systemic issues at the heart of Jackson's public health crisis.\r\n\r\nSubscribe to our channel  http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe\r\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish\r\nFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera\r\nCheck our website:  http://www.aljazeera.com/\r\nCheck out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/\r\n\r\n@AljazeeraEnglish\r\n#Aljazeeraenglish\r\n#News

With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.

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Through rigorous debate, Marc Lamont Hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom.

<p>Through rigorous debate, Marc Lamont Hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom.</p>