As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was becoming the voice of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, he was serving in another key role as a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
The church’s current senior pastor, Rev. Raphael Warnock, is also pulling double duty as the junior U.S. Senator from Georgia.
Warnock was elected to a full Senate term in 2022 in a tight race against former NFL star Herschel Walker. Warnock drew on his Georgia upbringing and his work as a pastor to win his seat.
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