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King memorial a gateway to the future

On Sunday, October 16, 2001, I was one of several thousand people who witnessed the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. [...]

Darryl Swint's thoughts on community-building and social media

Scholar Community Builder Darryl Swint explains the content and navigation of the JKCF Forum

As Scholarship Community Builder at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, development, beta testing, administration of and content creation for a private Forum for Jack Kent Cooke Scholars was my primary responsibility. Between its launch in late June 2010, use of the [...]

Chicago is well-represented in Bravo's Top Chef Masters competition

On the heels of last year’s win by Frontera Grill’s Rick Bayless, this year, five Chicago chefs — the most contestants from one city — are in the field of 22 for Bravo TV’s Top Chef Masters. For this week’s Chicago Explainer story, I created a culinary tale of the tape of Second City’s five local [...]