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Ernie Suggs

Ernie Suggs has been a reporter at the AJC since 1997, currently covering a variety of breaking news and investigative stories for page A1. He previously reported for newspapers in New York City and Durham, N.C. A veteran of more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter, Suggs has covered stories ranging from politics to civil rights to higher education. A 1990 graduate of North Carolina Central University, with a degree in English Literature, Suggs was also a Harvard University Nieman Fellow. He is currently on the Nieman Board of Trustees and the former national vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His appreciation for Prince and the New York Yankees is unmatched.

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Lashawn Wiltz, Cassandre Charles, Aliah Davis & Nellie Acevedo posed together as the Blogalicious national convention kicked off with a “Scandal” viewing party at the Hyatt Recency hotel in downtown Atlanta on Thursday night October 3rd, 2013. Members of the black, female blogging collective gathered to watch the season premiere of the TV show that is the top primetime show in America for African-Americans according to a recent Nielsen study. One of the key things about the show’s success is its presence on Social Media and women who make up Blogalicious play a key role in that.

“We want to see smart, successful women”

First, a confession. Before 10 p.m. Thursday, I had never seen a minute of “Scandal.” But that had not stopped me from being inundated by it. For two years, whenever the show aired, my social media networks would be hijacked by fans – mostly black women — anxiously commenting on ...

  • Updated: 7:26 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013
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The Rev. Joseph Lowery, right, escorts his wife Evelyn to a waiting limousine as marchers on the way to Washington, D.C., complete a short walk at the start of their journey on April 20, 1982, in Tuskegee, Ala.

Evelyn Lowery remembered as a “peaceful warrior”

Over the last 67 years, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery rarely did anything alone. But there he was Wednesday morning — a solitary figure amidst a sea of mourners – seated alone at the casket of his wife, Evelyn Gibson Lowery. An usher had wheeled him – at 91, he ...

  • 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, right, escorts his wife Evelyn to a waiting limousine as marchers on the way to Washington, D.C., complete a short walk at the start of their journey on April 20, 1982, in Tuskegee, Ala.

Evelyn Lowery’s life celebrated in song and praise

In a service already filled with music, praise and memories, hundreds of people are saying their final farewell to Evelyn Lowery at her elaborate funeral services on the campus of Morehouse College. The wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, she is being remembered today as a leader in ...

  • 10:24 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013
Former Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Dr. Joseph Lowery and his wife Evelyn attend a memorial service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. The church held a ceremony honoring the memory of the four young girls who were killed by a bomb placed outside the church 50 years ago by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Evelyn Gibson Lowery: 1925-2013

It was a very rare occasion that Evelyn Lowery wasn’t at the side of her husband, the Rev. Joseph Lowery.As he rose to prominence as one of the country’s leading figures in the civil rights movement, she was a constant companion, whether it was at a rally, march, news conference ...

  • Updated: 5:35 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013
Joseph Lowery (left), former SCLC president, and his wife Evelyn Lowery (right), president of Women's SCLC, sit during a press conference concerning a lawsuit claiming a breech of Fiduciary Duties and Fraud against Joseph Lowery and Incorporating Women's SCLC without the permission of the board against Evelyn Lowery. The conference was held at the Atlanta Life Building on Auburn Avenue.

Evelyn Lowery died overnight

Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, died overnight in her Atlanta home. She was 88. “My beloved Evelyn was a special woman, whose life was committed to service, especially around the issues of empowering women,” Joseph E. Lowery said in a statement Wednesday. ...

  • Updated: 5:27 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013
The daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., Bernice King, right, listens as Rev. Raphael G. Warnock gives his remarks during the memorial service for the 44-year anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination at Ebenezer Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., April 4, 2011. Rev. Warnock is the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Squabbling among King siblings lingers, hurts

Almost since its inception in 1968, and despite its national and global reach, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change has teetered on the brink of relevancy and survival. Maintenance has been a problem, and local and federal courts are littered with years of lawsuits filed by ...

  • Updated: 9:49 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013
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Evelyn Lowery returns home after stroke

A week after suffering a stroke that doctors say caused irreversible damage, Evelyn Lowery, wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, has returned home.In a release issued late Wednesday, the Lowery family said it made the “prayerful … decision to release her from the hospital and return her to ...

  • 5:52 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013
Former Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Dr. Joseph Lowery and his wife Evelyn attend a memorial service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. The church held a ceremony honoring the memory of the four young girls who were killed by a bomb placed outside the church 50 years ago by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Mrs. Lowery goes home; still critical

A week after suffering a stroke that doctors say caused “irreversible damage,” Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, has returned home. In a release issued late Wednesday, the Lowery family said it made the “prayerful… decision to release her from the hospital and return her ...

  • 5:11 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013
An area above the meadow at Piedmont Park was trampled into mud during Music Midtown.

Piedmont Park on the injured list after Music Midtown

When Sumita Dalmia arrived at Piedmont Park Saturday afternoon for Music Midtown, she knew she was going to be in for a long, wet day. “When we got there, the rain came down pretty hard and we knew we had to make a game-day decision to stay or go. We ...

  • 6:10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, 2013
Former Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Dr. Joseph Lowery and his wife Evelyn attend a memorial service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. The church held a ceremony honoring the memory of the four young girls who were killed by a bomb placed outside the church 50 years ago by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Evelyn Lowery in critical condition after stroke

Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader Joseph Lowery, remained in critical condition late Thursday after suffering a stroke, family members said. Evelyn Lowery, 86, was hospitalized late Wednesday. Neither the family nor a family spokesperson would provide specific details. But in a statement issued by the family Thursday ...

  • 5:47 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013