Raphael Warnock becomes Georgia's first black senator
Raphael Warnock becomes Georgia's first black senator: Democratic pastor, 51, who leads church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached pays tribute to mother who 'used to pick somebody else's cotton' as he claims Senate seat Warnock said last night: 'Because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else's cotton picked her youngest son to be a senator' He was elected the first black Senator in the traditionally red state and became the first Democrat to be sent to the upper chamber by Georgians for 20 years Warnock grew up in the projects of Savannah with his 11 broth...