Reposted from @atlantadailyworld Atlanta City Council President Doug Shipman came under heavy fire on Tuesday for not appointing Black women councilmembers to leadership roles as he made committee assignments for the 2023 year. He has since reconsidered the assignments under heated criticism for his lapse in judgment and announced moments before the council’s first meeting of the new year, that he was replacing Councilmember Matt Westmoreland with Councilmember Marci Collier Overstreet to chair the zoning committee.
Shipman, who is white, made the decision following an ad paid for by Councilmembers Andrea Boone and Overstreet, both Black women, that was published in the Sunday, Jan. 1, Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.
The women denounced Shipman’s decision to not appoint a Black woman to chair any of the council’s seven committees. They said it was the first time in 40 years a Black woman did not have a leadership position on the council.
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