Donnell Suggs

Editor-in-Chief, The Atlanta Voice

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Donnell Suggs is the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlanta Voice.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Donnell began a sports writing career in Atlanta nearly two decades ago and has since written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, ESPN’s The Undefeated, the Houston Home Journal, Eatonton Messenger, Lake Oconee News, Newnan Times-Herald, Atlanta Daily World and the Atlanta Voice. He is a sad Mets fan.

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Race

Glynn County Police, Residents Wrestle With Racism

A year after Ahmaud Arbery's death, a lack of data complicates discussion about police reform in Glynn County.

February 23, 2021

By:

Donnell Suggs and
Margaret Coker

Education

Some Georgia Tax Credit Scholarships Go To Anti-LGBTQ Schools

Since 2008, more than a half billion dollars has been diverted from state tax coffers to private schools through a tax credit program designed by lawmakers to promote school choice.

Unlike many other states with similar programs, Georgia does little to regulate the performance or practices of schools that receive tax-credit scholarships. Moreover, the schools are free from many of the restrictions imposed on public schools to prevent them from excluding gay and trans students, The Current has found.

December 04, 2020

By:

Samantha Sunne and
Donnell Suggs

Race

Brunswick Votes To Remove Confederate Statue Once Legal Questions Are Resolved

The Brunswick City Commission voted Wednesday evening to remove a statue of a Confederate soldier from Hanover Square but not until legal disputes in other cities that have moved Civil War monuments have been resolved.

November 20, 2020

By:

Donnell Suggs

Race

Heritage Or Racism? Confederate Monument's Fate Divides Brunswick

The only monument in Hanover Square, a tree-lined park centrally located in Brunswick’s historic district, is of an unnamed Confederate soldier. The letters “BLM” are spray painted on its base. They've faded following multiple attempts to remove the months-old graffiti.

The fate of the monument has become a source of bitter debate pitting those who believe it represents the city’s racist past against those who see it as a tribute to their ancestors’ struggle to preserve a way of life.

October 24, 2020

By:

Donnell Suggs

News

Georgia Scholarship Tax Credit Program: $600M Credit With Little Oversight

In 2008 the Georgia Legislature created a program for taxpayers to fund private school scholarships, promising the measure would pressure low-performing public schools to improve, reduce local and state taxes and help lower-income children stuck in bad public schools.

Since then, more than $600 million has been shifted from state coffers to elementary and high school scholarships at private schools around the state – including more than 40 in the Savannah area.

September 28, 2020

By:

Donnell Suggs and
Samantha Sunne

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Donnell Suggs

News Stories by Donnell Suggs

Glynn County Police, Residents Wrestle With Racism

Some Georgia Tax Credit Scholarships Go To Anti-LGBTQ Schools

Brunswick Votes To Remove Confederate Statue Once Legal Questions Are Resolved

Heritage Or Racism? Confederate Monument's Fate Divides Brunswick

Georgia Scholarship Tax Credit Program: $600M Credit With Little Oversight

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