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Raphael Warnock honors the journey of his 82-year-old mother, who as a teen ‘used to pick somebody else’s cotton’ 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 be...

Baptist pastor becomes first Black US Senator from Georgia By Reuters Rich McKay Atlanta - 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 U.S. Senator from Georgia. The son of a sharecropper, Reverend Raphael Warnock, who never held public office before, defeated Kelly Loeffler, a wealthy businesswoman who was appointed to the seat by President Donald Trump. With 98 percent of the vote reported, Warnock tallied 50.6 percent of the ...

Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 16.06 EST The Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta has witnessed tides of history ebb and flow during its 134 years. Martin Luther King Jr, the civil rights leader, often preached here. Now its pastor, Raphael Warnock, has added a new chapter by becoming the first African American senator from Georgia. The storied church was firmly closed as votes were tallied on Tuesday night and its doors were plastered with coronavirus warnings, but there was a palpable surge outside as expectation turned to elation. “We know that Georgia is in the midst of a great change...

Raphael Warnock's father: The other 'radical' pastor behind the US Senate bid in Georgia CNN 12/20/2020 © Courtesy Raphael Warnock Raphael Warnock with his father, Jonathan Warnock, who died in 2010. His opponent calls Rev. Raphael Warnock an unpatriotic radical who celebrated the "hatred" of a fiery Black pastor who, in a notorious sermon, once declared that God damned America. But there's another, little-known pastor who inspired Warnock, the Democratic nominee for Georgia's upcoming Senate runoff election. Critics never seem to mention him, but this pastor was also radical in his ow...