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Russell Simmons on Flint: “They’re still paying the bill for the same poison water.”

by GLN Editor September 28, 2016

We caught up with hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Russel Simmons in Ferndale, Michigan yesterday  where he was participating in a fundraiser to support a pop-up healthy foods store in Flint, […]

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