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Jordan’s death comes just months after the deaths of Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian.
Porter joined WABE’s “All Things Considered” host Jim Burress live to talk about making the film about Jordan and the memories she shared with him.
In the documentary, Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African American Research at Harvard, said that Jordan was the first person to realize that “a devastatingly effective form of Black power would be top-down integration, at the heart of American capitalism, Wall Street. Vernon Jordan has done more to integrate the corridors of financial power than any African American in history. Vernon Jordan is the Rosa Parks of Wall Street.”
Carter Marks
February 7, 2021
Carter Marks is a junior business management and economics double major from St. Simons Island. His words of wisdom for incoming students are: “Everyone at UGA, both students and staff, are rooting for you. Don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone to talk to an administrator or a professor. You have the power to make real change on this campus and in the Athens-Clarke County through the hundreds of resources UGA has to offer.” (Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2020)
Student served as online orientation leader; lives life to the fullest
Carter Marks is a junior business management and economics double major from St. Simons Island. This summer he served as an orientation leader online. From First-Year Programs to Student Alumni Programs, Marks tries to build community at UGA and to above all “find ways to make sure students know that they are not alone, and together, we can … find those blessings in disguise to grow as a student body and insti