Newark

With the national spotlight on the city’s lead water crisis, officials have shaved seven years off the initial timeline to replace pipes.

The EPA says residents should not drink tap water, even if it’s been filtered. The city says more tests are needed.

“The positions and policies of the Trump administration are a direct threat to the health of African-American communities,” writes Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ).

“The not so subtle message is that Newark and its suburbs are all that White voters fear in a community: Black, Latino, Poor, Dangerous, and Blighted,” reads a statement cosigned by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and others.

Officials have turned off the taps at half the district’s schools.

Black students are just 53 percent of Newark students but 73 percent of those whose schools were shut in 2011-2012.

“Everybody’s getting paid, but Raheem still can’t read.”