“Sometimes you just have to call out racism, and that’s what it feels like.”

Ambie Bell, a candidate for Benton Harbor, Mich., city commissioner, responding to the city’s ongoing water crisis. For three years, the tap water in Benton Harbor has tested high for levels of lead, leaving residents to rely on bottled water for cooking and drinking. Almost half of the majority-Black city’s residents live below the poverty line. (Associated Press — November 4, 2021)