
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, 51, pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church once led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become the first Black U. S. senator elected from the state of Georgia. As votes were still being counted,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years after Freedom Summer sparked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, a new report released by the Center for American Progress examines how current demographic and political changes in heavily Black southern states could…