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Sen. Raphael Warnock WASHINGTON—The arrival of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock in Congress earlier this year coincided with an overdue recognition of the historic discrimination inflicted on Black farmers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The farmers’ plight has emerged as a major priority for Warnock, a Georgia Democrat whose victory in a January special election runoff handed his party a slim majority in the Senate for the first time in a decade. Senate Democratic leaders who want him re-elected in 2022 are also highlighting Warnock’s key role in moving legislation and crafting policy...

Black Southerners are wielding political power that was denied their parents and grandparents CNN 1/10/2021 Analysis by John Blake, CNN © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Supporters at a campaign rally for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock on January 4 in Atlanta. Nsenga Burton grew up in a military family that liked to travel and went everywhere from New York City and Washington, D.C., to the Caribbean. There was one place, though, that her mother dreaded visiting: the Deep South. Her mother saw it as a forbidding land of lynch mobs and "Whit...

Democrats win control of U.S. Senate as Ossoff defeats Perdue John Wagner, Brittany Shammas, Derek Hawkins, Cleve Wootson, Hannah Knowles Warnock declares victory with votes still to be counted Replay Video UP NEXT © Provided by The Washington Post © Provided by The Washington Post © Provided by The Washington Post Here’s what to know: Democrats’ success has abruptly shifted the outlook for Joe Biden’s presidency, giving him much stronger hopes of prevailing on ambitious legislation, sensitive nominations and possibly Supreme Court justice picks. Ossoff a...

Jan 6, 2021 / 06:39 PM EST Verlene Warnock spent her summers picking cotton and tobacco as a teen in Waycross, Georgia, in the 1950s before becoming a pastor. “Because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Warnock said in a speech shortly after midnight Wednesday. Her story was not uncommon. In the Jim Crow South, many poor Black people built savings by working in the fields because it was almost impossible for them to own land, said Karlos Hill, chair of African-A...

Thursday, 07 Jan 2021 07:50 AM MYT Democratic US Senate candidate Raphael Warnock speaks on his campaign's YouTube account after the runoff election against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in Atlanta, Georgia January 6, 2021. ― Social media via Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. ATLANTA, Jan 7 ― The deep-voiced Baptist pastor who now holds the pulpit where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr preached made history in his uphill battle to unseat a sitting Republican to become the first Black US Senator from Georgia. T...