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
Herman J. Russell's wake

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Sam Foster

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

People view a tribute to the four young girls killed during the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, at the National Center For Civil And Human Rights in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (Ben Gray for the AJC)

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Abby Phillip

Abby Phillip reclaims Jesse Jackson’s forgotten political legacy

APTOPIX Jamaica Extreme Weather

Atlanta’s Jamaican community rallies as Hurricane Melissa batters the island

Race and MARTA

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