WASHINGTON – Howard University and WHUT-TV will host a livestream tribute and memorial service for Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 beginning at 11:00 a.m. EST. To view the livestream, please visit: www.whut.org/VernonJordan.

The livestream programming will run as follows:

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST: Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain

This documentary film chronicles Jordan's modest origins through his rise to national renown as a pioneering attorney, businessman, civil rights leader and counselor to presidents spanning the era from President Lyndon B. Johnson to President Barack Obama.

12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. EST: Virtual Memorial Service for Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq.

(Members of the Jordan family will provide tributes)

1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. EST: An Evening with Vernon Jordan

An Evening with Vernon Jordan is a one-on-one interview of Vernon Jordan, one of the most iconic civic and business leaders of today. Taped in front of a live audience at the New York Times Center in New York City and hosted by veteran PBS-TV journalist, Gwen Ifill, An Evening with Vernon Jordan begins with a moving musical photo tribute to Vernon Jordan sung by tenor Rodrick Dixon.

2:15 p.m. EST: Livestream Concludes

Additionally, WHUT-TV will also broadcast An Evening with Vernon Jordan at 11 a.m. and the Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain documentary at 12:00 p.m. on the station airwaves. The memorial service will be presented exclusively via the livestream at www.whut.org/VernonJordan.

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