Sen. Raphael Warnock wins award from Roosevelt family

Georgia senator Raphael Warnock received the Roose­velt Institute’s Free­dom of Worship Award in a ceremony on October 13.

“I really felt that the strength of his pastoral voice was unique,” said Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and board chair of the institute.

Warnock, who is also pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. was once copastor, was honored on the same evening as New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. She was awarded the institute’s Freedom of Speech and Expression Award after spearheading the newspaper’s 1619 Project, which explores the history and legacy of slavery in the United States.