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
New Reconstruction Era Exhibition Shows How Reform and Resistance Have Shaped

Civil rights museum opens sweeping new gallery on Reconstruction

Cox Enterprises CEO Alex Taylor and AJC Publisher Andrew Morse were joined by AJC editors and Atlanta business react during the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Midtown on Friday, January 24, 2025.
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‘The only thing that changes is how we deliver it’

TikTok quarter zip

How young Black men are making the quarter-zip cool

OPINION: Why Andy Young seeks mercy for convicted killer Jamil Al-Amin

Civil rights activist, convicted in killing of Fulton deputy, dies in federal prison

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‘Digital is real time, print is lifetime’: Farewells to the paper AJC

Herman J. Russell's wake

Jesse Jackson hospitalized as he battles longstanding neurological illness

Black women and the shutdown

For many Black women, the shutdown was more than missed pay - it was a breaking point

Ashley D. Farmer

New book resurrects legacy of reparations pioneer Audley ‘Queen Mother’ Moore

A farewell to ink, deadlines and the print AJC

Clapping out the paper: A farewell to ink, deadlines and the print AJC

Sam Foster

He’s 24. Black. And nearly unseated a four-term mayor where most voters were white.