This morning Raphael Warnock won Georgia’s senate race by defeating Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler to become Georgia’s first Black senator in the nations history.
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1969, Reverend Warnock proudly claims his roots in the Kayton Homes public housing. He attended Atlanta’s Morehouse College and has served as senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005. Ebenezer, an Atlanta landmark of the American Civil Rights Movement was also led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.