A guide to the 2020 First Year Reading program's pick, What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, by Mona Hanna-Attisha
"All the Flint kids I knew and saw, all the kids I'd ever known and seen, were pushing me forward, lifting me up. This war of numbers and data was really about children. Each number on my spreadsheet was a child, a patient I'd seen and cared for. I knew their faces. I'd patted their heads, held their hands, hugged them tight. And for them, I'd keep fighting and never stop." (Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, p. 265-266)
The January 2016 Detroit Free Press article where Eden Wells, the state's chief medical executive, admitted that all Flint's children must be regarded "as exposed" to lead in their drinking water.
Founded by Dr. Hanna-Attisha and her partners, administered through the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, the Flint Kids Fund invests in programs and services designed to address and mitigate the long-term impact of lead poisoning and trauma suffered by children in Flint.
Referred to in the book as the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the department was reorganized and renamed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2019.
The task force is comprised of scientists and technical experts from the EPA, including Miguel Del Toral, a longtime researcher of lead levels in water.
The collected stories of the Flint Journal on the city's water crisis. Journalist Ron Fonger was among the first to publish Dr. Hanna-Attisha's research.
Curt Guyette articles at the Detroit Metro Times. Guyette, in a project funded by the ACLU and the Ford Foundation and published in the Metro Times and Deadline Detroit, wrote one of the first articles about the contaminated water.
Curt Guyette's story on the study by Marc Edwards and others at Virginia Tech on the corrosion of Flint water pipes.
Image: "Photo of Flint drinking water pipes showing different kinds of iron corrosion and rust." Credit: Min Tang and Kelsey Pieper/Virginia Tech
EDITORIAL
An opinion piece by the Editorial Board of the Detroit Free Press that excoriated the failures of Gov. Snyder and his administration in the Flint water crisis.
A comprehensive overview of the Flint Water Crisis from the NRDC. The NRDC got involved in 2015, petitioning the EPA to declare a federal emergency, and joined a coalition that sued city and state officials in 2016.
From a commemorative booklet produced by the National Historic Chemical Landmarks program of the American Chemical Society in 2002 after the establishment of a landmark in her honor at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
The Poisoned City by 
Lead: Its Effects on Environment and Health