DeKalb commissioners pass $1.5 billion FY2022 budget; MAC releases results of its DEI initiative

DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond discusses the county’s $1.5 billion FY2022 budget.

Plus, Michael Baptiste, Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, discusses MAC’s ATL Action for Racial Equity initiative and the results of its inaugural diversity, equity and inclusion assessment.

Lastly, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. From the “Closer Look’s” ATL 68 series, we revisit Roses’ conversation with Xernona Clayton. Clayton recalls a conversation she had with Dr. King as she drove him to the airport to fly to Memphis and the moment she got the news of King’s assassination.