Clarence B. Jones served as speechwriter and counsel to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., partnered with Sanford I. Weill and Arthur Levitt, Jr. in the Wall Street investment banking firm Carter, Berlind & Weill, and was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Amsterdam News. Dr. Jones has been visiting professor at Stanford University and the scholar-in-residence at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute and co-founder of the Clarence B. Jones Institute for Non-Violence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco.