Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Cellis Podcast.

Today I'll be interviewing my Morehouse brother and CEO and founder of

hit strategies. Terence Woodbury you guys need to get to know Terrence. He studies trends and numbers and gets to the bottom of them better than anybody in the game.

But before I get to Terrence, I wanted to take a moment to honor the life of Vernon Jordan who

transition this week. A lot of people rightly know of Vernon Jordan as a friend

and advisor to former President Clinton and the corporate powerhouse who paved the way

for every notable black CEO and Black Corporate Board member as a result of his

career in law and finance. But many of us and my parents generation in particular know the

civil rights icon Vernon Jordan who was lawyer to Charlene Hunter Gaut when she

integrated the University of Georgia, former head of the United Negro

College Fund and the National Urban League, two iconic black civil rights organizations that

he led to prominence.

You won't find anyone with the kind of career that he had

had that span law, activism, civil rights, and corporate America.

But what people won't necessarily tell you is Vernon Jordan up until his death,

mentored countless black attorneys and executives across the country, and was a confident of every black CEO.

President Clinton often tells the story about how Vernon

Jordan declined his offer to be attorney general

because he knew that a part of that job

was to hold the president accountable

as an independent check on the president,

but in doing so it would impair his ability to be the president's friend.

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