Ernie Suggs
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Ernie Suggs has been a reporter at the AJC since 1997, currently covering race and culture, as well as a variety of breaking national news and investigative stories. A veteran of nearly 30 years as a newspaper reporter, he previously reported for newspapers in New York City and Durham, covering stories ranging from politics to civil rights to higher education. Since 2016, he has managed the AJC’s award-winning Black History Month project through AJC Sepia, the paper’s Black news curation site. He is the author of the book, "The Many Lives of Andrew Young," and the writer and producer of the Emmy-nominated hip-hop documentary, "The South Got Something to Say." A 1990 graduate of North Carolina Central University, with a degree in English Literature, Suggs was also a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow. He is currently on the Nieman Foundation’s Board of Trustees and the former national vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Rocky Mount, N.C., his obsession for Prince, Spike Lee movies, "Hamilton" and the New York Yankees is unmatched.
Latest from Ernie Suggs
Jesse Jackson

‘I Am Somebody’

AJC Deja News: Harvard student W.E.B. Du Bois quite an orator (1890)

Reimagining the work of W.E.B. Du Bois for a new century

Groups fear Eastside Atlanta development incentive could go elsewhere

Ebenezer Baptist Church awarded $100,000 preservation grant

Jesse Jackson

Atlanta leaders remember the Jesse Jackson who ‘pushed hope into weary places’

Jesse Jackson to speak at Atlanta high school

In Atlanta, Jesse Jackson found a home and a stage

Basketball player Walt Frazier takes a nostalgic tour of the Sweet Auburn district and the surrounding neighborhoods where he grew up, Dec. 18, 1983. 
(The Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Walt Frazier, former New York Knick basketball star and toast of Manhattan for his flashy style on and off the court, makes a nostalgic tour of some of his old haunts in Atlanta. Atlanta Weekly. Sunday December 18, 1983.

AJCP029-006b, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Atlanta in Black and white: A century of becoming

King’s refurbished SCLC headquarters

King’s refurbished SCLC headquarters joins National Park System

Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance gives voice to the definitive W.E.B. Du Bois biography

Julian Bond

When Georgia tried to silence Julian Bond

1993 in Atlanta

From Auburn Avenue to the world: 100 moments in Black Atlanta history