Atlanta City Council President Doug Shipman announced he is making a change in committee leadership just hours before the council was scheduled to meet Tuesday.
Shipman says he will keep Councilmember Marci Collier Overstreet as chair of the zoning committee instead of Councilmember Matt Westmoreland.
That’s after an ad published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Sunday paper, paid for by Overstreet and Councilmember Andrea Boone, alleged that Shipman denied all Black women on the council a chance to chair committees.
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