Dawn Turner Trice

Gus Ikemoto received an unusual Christmas gift from the University of California, Davis, recently. It was a special honorary degree authorized in July by the UC Board of Regents as...

The topics Anne Marie Schlekeway has broached in her young blog, KissMyALS.com, go way beyond where mere mortals would even dare tread. Her Nov. 22 entry is about pooping: "To...

When Antonio Jones walks down Halsted Street in Boystown, he feels more at home here than he did in his old Garfield Park neighborhood, where he used to worry about...

For David Martinez Johnson, who lives in Peachtree City, Ga., Thanksgiving arrived on Thursday, Nov. 12, when he went to his mailbox and found a letter from a South Side...

Before Beverly Copeland retired from the Morton Grove Public Library five years ago, one of her duties was to dress the newly acquired children's books in protective plastic covering. She...

Afrika Porter-Ollarvia can't tell you much about the young girls invited by first lady Michelle Obama to the White House last week for a power-mentoring session. But Porter-Ollarvia can tell...

There are a few theories explaining why in the early 1990s young black men started wearing extremely baggy pants and "sagging" them. One theory is that hip-hop icons co-opted the...

Without a doubt, the first thing you notice about 27-year-old Aaron Swanton is his hair -- his waist-length blondish, brownish chaotic dreadlocks that he wears with great pride and purpose....

Debra Hammond knew in theory that gardening offered a bounty of life metaphors. But nine years ago she moved beyond the theoretical when she began planting vegetables at a community...

Growing up, Gina Jones dreamed of living in a mansion. But 13 years ago, when she and her husband, Gordon, moved into their Victorian town home in the historic Pullman...