Dawn Turner Trice

As a teenager, Mary Pat Kull, 50, of the Morgan Park neighborhood, played basketball, soccer and tennis. But as she got older, she said, she became less physically active in...

When Marian Tompson had her first three babies in the 1950s, she wanted to breast-feed each, but she had complications. Her first child spit up too much. With the other...

When we think of a midwife or a doula, typically we imagine a person who helps a mother during her pregnancy, labor and delivery. While Ana Blechschmidt is a certified...

On my kitchen table is a stainless steel bowl of Granny Smith apples that are for show rather than consumption. I got the idea a few years ago from a...

For Jerry Hutchison, the sexual abuse started when he was a 14-year-old altar boy living in California. Hutchison said his home life was in disarray. His father ignored him, and...

As I walked into Elisabeth Ruyter's 37th-floor apartment in Hyde Park recently, two things struck me: the smell of soup simmering on her stove and her near-panoramic view of the...

Before Ralph Richard Banks came to Chicago recently he said he'd encountered black women — including his own two sisters — who met his new book with suspicion and contempt....

Amid graves that have been cleared of leaves and adorned with wreathes of thyme and mint, members of the Wisconsin-based Wiccan church Circle Sanctuary on Monday will celebrate the last...

On his new constitutional rights website, Evanston resident Pat Shiplett tells the story behind the Declaration of Independence this way: "More than two hundred years ago, the American colonists got...