Dawn Turner Trice

Until Bryan Le Blanc's 93-year-old mother died earlier this month, she had spent the last four years of her life in the Alzheimer's unit at Maryhaven Nursing & Rehabilitation Center...

In a bygone era, when Chicago politics seemed consumed by a stark racial divide, Lessie Hill's vote might have been automatic for a black mayoral candidate. But a generation after...

While many students across the country will be out of school on Monday celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the nearly 550 young men and women of Providence St....

Celebrity makeup artist Akua Auset spent Friday evening in front of a gathering of women in her North Elston Avenue studio. It's not that the women didn't arrive already knowing...

Olivia Barrera, 72, has a Yorkie named Ozzie who's 5 years old, weighs 5 pounds and lives with her in a tiny Humboldt Park apartment. Ozzie defies the caricature of...

Wayne Richard is a man of sizable heft with a heavy bass voice, and when he sits down on a streamlined black sofa in an office at the Chicago Coalition...

When Waldo E. Johnson Jr., a University of Chicago social scientist, decided to put together a book on what's hurting and helping young black men, he decided to collect the...

In the short time I knew Anne Marie Schlekeway, I'd say her philosophy of life could be summed up this way: Give of yourself! Be grateful! Live life to its...

For much of his life, Mike Williams, a De La Salle High School graduate and former NBA player, was blessed with good timing on and off the basketball court. It...

If you take your cues from advertisements that tout medicines for thinning bones, you might think that the face of osteoporosis is that of a middle-aged white or Asian woman...