Chicago Tribune: An alumnus of Future Leaders of Chicago resurrects it

“During his junior year of high school, Matthew Brewer would get to skip school one day a month and go somewhere he had never been. He remembers shaking hands and snapping a photo with Mayor Richard M. Daley at City Hall.He remembers a very intense discussion about race at the Chicago Community Trust.

And he remembers realizing that many of the white students participating in the program, called Future Leaders of Chicago, had never been around black students much less had a black friend…”