Herb Douglas Pittsburgh Visit With Cheryl White, Doug "Sweet" Williams, Leland Hardy Part I 1-31-23

The Founder of Racial Bias Dot Org, Inc. (www.RacialBias.org), Leland Hardy, who recently launched the Jazz For Social Justice™ global music tour (www.JazzForSocialJustice.org), is shown with Miss Black America 1971, Ms. Cheryl White, and the Pittsburgh, PA born and bred mid 1980s welterweight boxing sensation, Doug "Sweet" Williams, in this Part I of their two part video visit with the legendary Herbert P. "America's British Lion" Douglas, Jr. in Mr. Douglas' native Pittsburgh to which he recently returned to live after living in Philadelphia for nearly fifty years.
Mr. Douglas is the world's oldest living Black Olympian and is America's oldest living Olympic Medalist, having won a Bronze Medal in the first post WWII Olympiad, the 1948 London Olympics He was one of the first Black vice presidents in major corporate America and is credited with having single-handedly built Hennessy Cognac into the world's leading cognac brand over a more than thirty year career at the then world's largest spirit maker, Schieffelin & Somerset, now LVMH - Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. There was considerable national and international media coverage of the July 29, 2022 Philadelphia, PA street renaming ceremony in his honor as shown at the following links:
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Former Hennessy USA President & CEO, Jim Clerkin, extols Herb's many virtues in the following tribute video: bit.ly/MoetHennessyNorthAmeri...
Additional biographical information on Mr. Douglas can be found here: bit.ly/HerbertPDouglasJrGSR