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You can call him Reverend Senator Doctor Warnock, thank you. Raphael Warnock has made history, becoming Georgia’s first Black Senator.
This news comes after Warnock beat Georgia’s incumbent Senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler, in a nailbiting runoff last night.
The Atlanta native is a graduate of Morehouse College and resides as pastor of the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, both things he has in common with the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This significant moment comes just a few months after Kamala Harris was the first Woman and African American to be elected as Vice President of the United States.
Making this election even more eventful, there is another runoff underway for Georgia’s second Senate seat. John Ossoff, a former aid to the late Congressman John Lewis, is battling to unseat incumbent David Perdue.
Though Georgia has historically been a Republican safe zone, the Peach State flipped “blue,” as young and Black voters turned out in unprecedented numbers this election season.
Join us un congratulating Rev. Sen. Dr. Repheal Warnock!