Nirma Hasty

Months after a crisis left Jackson, Mississippi, without running water, residents still don’t trust a water system that has plagued them for decades. In “Boiling Point: A City’s Fight for Clean Water,” we hear from a community that feels fulfilling the most basic need for human survival can be a daily reminder that those who live in a poor, mostly Black city don’t seem to matter. Is a legacy of racism at the heart of the problem?