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Warnock Calls For Equity And Integrity In Sermon At Ebenezer Baptist Ahead Of MLK Day

Georgia Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock took to the pulpit at Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual home for a sermon honoring the civil rights icon and calling for his work to continue.
Sen.-elect the Rev. Raphael Warnock, shown campaigning earlier this month, called for equity and inclusivity in a sermon ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, delivered from the late civil rights icon's church.

One day ahead of the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Georgia Sen.-elect the Rev. Raphael Warnock took to the pulpit of the civil rights icon's spiritual home to preach a message of equity, integrity, possibility and inclusivity.

Warnock, who served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for more than a decade before his election to the Senate, spoke at length that paid tribute to King's work and the ways in which it continues today.

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