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By BOB GOLDSBOROUGH Chicago Tribune
Henry W. “Hank” De Zutter was equal parts journalist, activist, college instructor and provocateur, with a deep desire to further racial equality and a practitioner’s skill at communicating his ideas clearly.
A longtime instructor and lecturer at Chicago’s Malcolm X College who early in his career was an education reporter for the Chicago Daily News, De Zutter co-founded both the Chicago Journalism Review and the Community Media Workshop.
“Like Studs Terkel, Hank knew how to listen to sources in a way that put them at ease to tell their story better,” said Thom Clark, who co-founded the Community Media Workshop with De Zutter in 1989.
De Zutter, 80, died on July 14 of complications from a fall that he suffered on July 10 in his Lincoln Park apartment, said his daughter, Amanda Kotlyar.
Born Henry Wayne De Zutter in Chicago, De Zutter grew up in Skokie and Northbrook and graduated in 1959 from Glenbrook High School, where he was captain of the golf team, editor of the school newspaper and class valedictorian. He studied at Williams College in Massachusetts before receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1963.
De Zutter worked as a reporter for the Lerner Newspapers chain while earning a master’s degree in journalism in 1965 from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
De Zutter and his first wife, Janet Jonjack, enlisted in the federal Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA, program, training in the South Bronx and then working as community organizers in Baltimore.
In the spring of 1967, the Chicago Daily News hired De Zutter as an education reporter. The following year, he helped found the Chicago Journalism Review, a short-lived but influential publication spawned in response to what he and other journalists felt was heavily pro-police coverage during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
In 1970, De Zutter joined the staff of Malcolm X College, working for the next several decades as an English and journalism instructor while also teaching classes at times at Truman College and at Columbia College.
“I think his most important accomplishment was that of mentor to so many second-chance students and the untiring support he provided aspiring journalists of color,” Clark said.
In 1989, De Zutter and Clark formed the Community Media Workshop, a foundation-funded effort to help community-based organizations get better press and tell their stories directly to a wider audience.
Under their leadership, the organization, which now is called Public Narrative, helped community groups write news releases and deal with the media and published a detailed directory of Chicago’s journalists and media organizations.
For years, De Zutter freelanced for the Chicago Reader, writing long stories for its “Neighborhood News” column. From 1991 until 1996, De Zutter and Clark interviewed and photographed people on the street for their weekly “Snap Judgments” column.
“During his years with the Reader, we’d often cover the same stories — planning for the never-held 1992 World’s Fair, public housing demolitions, big urban renewal projects,” recalled former Tribune reporter and columnist John McCarron. “Hank took a bottom-up approach — how does it affect folks already living (in a community) — but with empathy, not the up-against-City-Hall self-righteousness so common with the neighborhood left.”
In 1995, De Zutter wrote a cover story for the Reader titled “What Makes Obama Run?,” which was the first in-depth look at future President Barack Obama as he ran for state Senate.
“Hank made an unknown guy known to me and a lot of other people in Chicago,” said retired Chicago Reader senior editor Michael Miner. “It put (Obama) on the map.”
In 1978, De Zutter wrote a 30-minute TV documentary that aired on WBBM-Ch. 2 about youths playing basketball on the streets of the South Side in the late 1970s. Titled “Going Up Easy, Coming Down Hard,” the documentary included a look at the early careers of streetball stars and future professional basketball players Billy Harris and Sonny Parker.
In 1992, De Zutter and his second wife, Pamela Little De Zutter, who collaborated several times on articles for the Reader, were featured in Terkel’s book “Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession” due to the fact that theirs was an interracial marriage.
“I don’t even see dirty looks given to us. When we go out together, people seem happy to see us,” De Zutter told Terkel in the book. “I feel people see us as a symbol of change and hope, especially when we have our blended family.”
A jazz aficionado, De Zutter reviewed the 10th annual Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park in the Tribune in September 1988. Five years later, De Zutter wrote a children’s book, “Who Says a Dog Goes Bow-Wow?,” which explored how animal sounds are expressed in various different languages.
“What we see is so often determined by what we say, or are taught to hear,” De Zutter told the Tribune upon the book’s launch.
De Zutter retired from Malcolm X College in 2002, and from the Community Media Workshop in 2004.
De Zutter’s first two marriages ended in divorce. In addition to his daughter, De Zutter is survived by his third wife, Barbara Belletini Fields; two sons, Max and Chris; a stepson, Agward “Eddie” Turner; two stepdaughters, Jayne Mattson and Ana Boyer Davis; two sisters, Joyce Mooneyham and Wendy Callahan; five grandchildren; and four stepgrandchildren.
A private memorial service is being planned.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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Contact: Renee' Blissett (773) 968-5777 | Mobile reneemblissett@yahoo.com The Lighthouse Church of All Nations 4501 W. 127th Street Alsip, IL 60803
Pastoral transition in Chicago's largest multicultural church **Press invited Sunday, March 26, 2023, at 6 p.m. CST for a special celebration service**
Having just celebrated 45 years of serving the Chicagoland area, The Lighthouse Church of All Nations is embarking on a new journey. Founded by the Rev. Dr. Dan Willis in 1977, the church grew from 16 people to 6,000 members and is well-respected throughout the world for its integrity, love and commitment to helping others. This nondenominational ministry is home to 72 different nationalities and ministers to more than 700 children and youth every weekend. The Rev. Dr. Dan Willis, affectionately known as, “Pastor Dan”, has led as senior pastor for these past 45 years and is excited to announce his elevation to bishop. The new senior pastor of The Lighthouse Church of All Nations is the Rev. Garland Mays, Jr. Pastor Garland and his wife, Pastor Farida, have been members and ministers for many years, leading as youth pastors for nearly 15 years. Parents of three sons, they realize the importance of strong families and the role communities of faith play. This change does not mean “retirement” for Bishop Dan though! His new role allows him to mentor and oversee The Lighthouse while also elevating his opportunities for television ministry, writing, speaking and teaching. This transition will be celebrated at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 26,in the Main Sanctuary of The Lighthouse Church, 4501 W. 127th Street in Alsip. Free and open to the public, we encourage everyone to join us for this special night.
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