Raphael Warnock emerged as the first Black Senator after beating Republican senator Kelly Loeffler. He made history as Georgia’s first Black senator, a state shaped by the legacy of the civil war, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement.
Since 2005, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist church, where Martin Luther King Jr grew up as a member of the congregation and later preached.
Warnock is known for campaigning against the death penalty and economic inequality, and for women’s reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, police reform, and action on the climate crisis. Warnock, 51, has not held elected political office before.