Behind the story: Following the Flint basketball players
by J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2020
4 minutes
FLINT, Mich. - A classic Western aired on the big television, flashing light across the dark living room. The volume blared at full blast so that Dennis and Linda Rushing could listen to the movie, but the problem was that now we couldn't hear what they had to say.
Luckily, Los Angeles Times photographer Robert Gauthier and I had gotten used to the soundtrack of the Rushing cinema experience as we tried to capture a story filled with both despair and hope. And we were grateful Dennis and Linda had let us back into their home.
The Rushings, who
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