Flint in Slow Motion: Segregation, Environmental Racism and East Chicago's Poisoned Ground

'Investigative reporter Rebecca Burns surveys the toxic legacy environmental racism and housing discrimination in East Chicago, Indiana -- as a public housing complex built over the site of a former lead smelter poisoned generations of people, far beyond the concern of developers and politicians responsible for the site's location. Burns wrote the article "On Poisoned Ground: East Chicago’s legacy of lead pollution" for The Baffler .