WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Reverend Warnock issued the following press release:

Thursday evening, Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) delivered the keynote commencement address to Georgia Institute of Technology's Spring 2026 graduating class in Atlanta, Georgia. Senator Warnock urged graduates to challenge the status quo and think creatively to help make America a better place for future generations and bring the country closer to its constitutional ideals.

During his remarks, Senator Warnock, an alum of Atlanta's Morehouse College and the only sitting U.S. Senator to graduate from a Historically Black College & University (HBCU), encouraged the graduates to use their voices for good in pursuit of what Martin Luther King Jr., called ...