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Vic Mensa Challenges Ludacris, Machine Gun Kelly, Yo Gotti & Waka Flocka To Match His $5k Donation In Water For Flint, MI

Posted on June 5th, 2018
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Karen


After noticing that artists like Vic Mensa would be in Michigan for a concert, Little Miss Flint reached out via Twitter to seek assistance from the artists to get their fans involved. But what she got was a $5,000 confirmation and a challenge for the other artists on the bill to match. Mensa has been a staunch supporter of justice during the crisis and the ongoing police brutality struggle for the last four years.

Amariyanna Copeny (Little Miss Flint) is determined to provide clean water for the residents of Flint, Mich. Mari has spearheaded several charitable endeavors to help victims of the public health calamity erupting in 2014 after Flint switched its water supply to the Flint River. Pack Your Back, a non-profit organization founded in 2016 by Central Michigan University student Galen Miller, is doing its part by providing backpacks and school supplies for underprivileged students in Flint and beyond.

In April, Gov. Snyder announced that the state would stop providing bottled water to residents, citing that testing showed a decline in hazardous levels of lead in Flint’s water supply. Just days after the announcement, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver met with Snyder to make a case for why residents should continue to receive free water, though the conversation did not end very well. Weaver has since revealed that the city plans to sue the state of Michigan for ending the bottled water program.

Following Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s decision to end a state-funded free bottled water program, the 10-year-old activist teamed with Michigan-based charity Pack Your Back, to raise money to provide over 200,000 bottles of water for residents, which is still grappling through a water crisis.

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