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The arc of Timuel Black Jr.’s life is long, covering most of the 20th century and all we ve seen of the 21st. Along the way, the 102-year-old labor organizer, educator, author and freedom fighter has witnessed pivotal events in American and African American history.
As an infant, he survived the influenza pandemic of 1918. He was part of the Great Migration, which brought his family north from Alabama to Chicago. As an Army soldier in World War II, he battled Hitler abroad and segregation at home. During the civil rights movement, he led a contingent to the March on Washington in 1963.
With the eyes of the nation locked on Georgia on Jan. 5, Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both won their high-stakes runoff elections this year. Their victories follow President Joe Bidenâs win in Georgia this past November, turning what was once thought a staunchly red state, blue.
Warnock and Ossoff are Georgiaâs first Democratic senators since former Sen. Zell Miller retired in 2005, and will give the Democrats the Senate majority for the first time since 2010. Â
Both senators are self proclaimed LGBTQ advocates and were endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign as well as Georgia Voice, an LGBTQ media source for the state.
“Warnock! Ossoff! … Wow,” said the Daily Kos blogger, whose pseudonym is Chloris Creator. “Comparing them to Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum of Independence Day, the black & the Jew who saved the world … I’ll leave it at that.”
Of course, Ossoff and Warnock came to be nominees not by design, but by fending off others in the primaries. Ossoff faced incumbent Republican David Perdue in a conventional challenge: Perdue was ending his freshman six-year term in the Senate. Neither man got a majority and, according to Georgia law, that triggered an automatic runoff on January 5.
Similarly, Warnock faced Kelly Loeffler, a Republican whom Gov. Brian Kemp named as interim senator a year ago, when neither secured 50 percent of the vote in the November election.
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Democratic US Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock waves to supporters during a drive-in rally, Jan. 3, 2021, in Savannah, Georgia (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
JTA Hackers shut down an Atlanta synagogue’s live stream of Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock delivering a sermon to honor Martin Luther King Jr., whose church he leads.
Kent Alexander, president of The Temple, said in a letter sent Saturday to congregants that the website’s service provider said “malicious user agents … continuously loaded the Temple website with the objective of shutting it down. In doing so, they blocked access not only to The Temple, but to every other synagogue client website across the country.”