Dawn Turner Trice

Over the years, wildlife biologist Sandy Banks has encountered an array of animals in precarious situations: A couple of bucks that locked horns and had to be pried apart; a...

Over the years, wildlife biologist Sandy Banks has encountered an array of animals in precarious situations: A couple of bucks that locked horns and had to be pried apart; a...

When Gregory Harden and his family moved into the Washington Park neighborhood in 2005, he was 16 and his mother didn't want him going anywhere near the stores on the...

When Art Johnston recalls how difficult life was for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the early 1970s when he arrived in Chicago, several examples immediately come to mind....

When Chicago clinical psychologist Susan Benjamin Feingold had postpartum depression more than two decades ago, not many people were taking the illness seriously. Some doctors were even telling women all...

When Timothy Simmons decided to let his hair grow into locks in 2005, he did so out of pride for his African-American culture. For years, his reddish-brown hair was well-coiffed...

When Timothy Simmons decided to let his hair grow into locks in 2005, he did so out of pride for his African-American culture. For years, his reddish-brown hair was well-coiffed...

When Chicago's Rev. Addie Wyatt died last year at 88, I wrote that she was a dynamo in the labor, civil and women's rights movements. That was a mere snapshot....

Parents often flock to books dispensing advice about how to rear children who possess both the social skills to be well liked among their peers and the academic chops to...

Jaleesa Armstrong grew up with the sound of her three older brothers constantly bouncing their basketballs throughout the family's Englewood neighborhood home. The sound — which was different on the...