Dawn Turner Trice

My grandmother was "the help." Every weekday morning, she would leave our 24-story apartment building on the South Side and go downtown to the Ira A. Jones glassware company in...

Christine Bork recently spent 90 minutes watching an insightful documentary called "Miss Representation." It's an examination of gender bias over decades, and the hypersexualized and demeaning images that women and...

When Melinda Pollack-Harris learned she had breast cancer seven years ago, she was grateful that her doctor told her in a roundabout way. "She said, 'You have abnormal cells in...

Dr. Arnold Goldberg's fascination with human behavior goes back to the 1930s, when his father owned a laundry on Chicago's West Side and the family lived in the rear of...

A black man, an Irish man, a Latino, a Middle Easterner and a lesbian walk into a bar ... That may sound like the opener to a not-so-politically-correct joke, but...

Katie Davis, 24, lost her ovaries to cancer when she was 12. Doctors told her that if she wanted to have a baby one day, she would have to use...

Katie Davis, 24, lost her ovaries to cancer when she was 12. Doctors told her that if she wanted to have a baby one day, she would have to use...

Katie Davis, 24, lost her ovaries to cancer when she was 12. Doctors told her that if she wanted to have a baby one day, she would have to use...

Russ Bruzek was a dashing young man, a 1960s-era salesman in "Mad Men"-type suits, when he came under the spell of acting. Now he's a distinguished-looking, white-haired gentleman who still...