Dawn Turner Trice

There's a line in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" that sums up Samuel Vega's story beautifully: "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." About four years ago, when...

On election night last November, Chicago was stage-set as the world watched. Grant Park teemed with people of different races who stood side by side, hugging, cheering and crying. One...

Louise Cainkar grew up in 1960s Evergreen Park in an all-white neighborhood. Her father was an attorney who wore "Mad Men"-type gray suits and took the Rock Island train daily...

Before Christy Howard-Steele decided to go to seminary, she had been an actuary and then a restaurateur who occasionally got together with close friends in each others' homes to pray...

In the late 1950s, Godwin Onyema was a student at an all-boys boarding school in Nigeria. He had a history teacher whose wife was a missionary doctor from Liverpool, England,...

It has been nearly two years since Nailah Franklin's story captured the heart of this city. She was the 28-year-old pharmaceutical sales representative who was reported missing on Sept. 19,...

Steve Kil grew up in Hanover Township, Ind., down the road from 109th and Calumet Avenues. He admits that the four-way intersection would be fairly nondescript, no more than a...

Alfred Tatum grew up at the Ida B. Wells housing development near 38th Street and Rhodes Avenue, in a three-story walk-up that is long gone. In the early 1980s, Tatum...

My mother used to tell my sister and me that one of the hardest trips she ever made to Burr Oak Cemetery near suburban Alsip was to bury her grandmother....

Jennifer Richeson is the Northwestern social psychologist who won a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2006 for her creative work examining how one's identity (more specifically, racial identity)...