The Rev. Raphael Warnock sworn in with two others as new senator
Warnock was sworn in with Georgia’s second new senator, Jon Ossoff, who is the state’s first Jewish senator, and Alex Padilla, California’s first Latino senator. In this image from video, Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Georgia, from left; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California; and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, on the floor of the Senate, Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)
January 20, 2021
(RNS) Raphael Warnock, the Atlanta pastor long known as “the Rev.,” received a new moniker “Senator” as he was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday (Jan. 20).
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator The Georgia pastor will be just the 11th Black U.S. senator. His victory came amid an attempt to delegitimize election results a pattern for more than 150 years.
By Theodore R. Johnson
Illustration by Dakarai Akil
In late January 1870, the nation’s capital was riveted by a new arrival: the Mississippi legislator Hiram Rhodes Revels, who had traveled days by steamboat and train, forced into the “colored” sections by captains and conductors, en route to becoming the first Black United States senator. Not long after his train pulled in to the New Jersey Avenue Station, Revels, wearing a black suit and a neat beard beneath cheekbones fresh from a shave, was greeted by a rhapsodic Black public. There were lunches with leading civil rights advocates; daily congratulatory visits from as many as 50 men at the Capitol Hill home where he was the guest of a prominent Black
MLK and the power of the Black vote | Opinion
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Posted Jan 18, 2021
Antoinette Gaboton-Moss, the pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Highland Park and the founder and executive director of Black Community Watchline, says Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy is connected to the legacies of Ella Baker, Dorothy Height and Diane Nash and extends to the political activism of Fannie Lou Hamer who was brutally beaten for registering people to vote. Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown, Aimee Allison, among other Black women, continue Dr. King’s legacy of grassroots mobilization, fighting against voter suppression, stressing the importance of civic engagement, and working to build a more equitable society.
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