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© Getty Images A measure of a civilized society is the institutions it builds to preserve and continue a legacy. For African Americans, one such monument is the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, founded 135 years ago by people recovering from slavery. As we observe Martin Luther King Day, people at home and abroad cheer the arrival of political change in Georgia and in America even as they condemn the violence that threatens our democratic institutions. In the midst of chaos, the Rev. Raphael Warnock Warnock is the fifth minister of the church, having taken on the role in 2005. More importantly, he is the first to achieve the full measure of political redemption demanded in the long struggle for Black freedom. His election made real the dream of state empowerment championed by his most renowned predecessor, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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