Dawn Turner Trice

Teresa Zeigler drove to a Chicago city clerk office on West Addison Street last Monday to pay a $50 parking ticket she received because of an expired meter and to...

When the two brothers, now ages 11 and 8, came to live with their foster mom a year ago, they already had lived in several foster homes. For the first...

When David Willard was 7 years old, he used to watch the birds dining on the fermented apples of his grandfather's Wisconsin apple orchard. That they appeared drunk with delight...

What amazes me most about the archival materials on the family that ran the Chicago Defender newspaper -- the collection opened to the public last week at the Woodson Regional...

Years ago, it was not so uncommon for inner-city black parents to send their children down South to visit relatives for a portion of the summer. The idea was to...

Phillip Jackson's voice is shrill and his expressions are sweeping as he moves around his Bronzeville office. He resembles someone who has consumed way too much caffeine, which makes trying...

A large mosaic of tile and glass dominates the facade of the North Sheridan Road building that's home to the Girl Driven Research Project. Inside, the youths who come here...

A few days ago, my 14-year-old daughter and her girlfriend were planning their weekend and wanted it to include a movie. Ordinarily, that's not a bad idea, particularly during a...

Paul Hutchins is a house of a man. He's 6 foot 5, 340 pounds and wears a size 15 shoe. In the mid-1990s, he played offensive tackle for the Green...

I recently wrote about First Lady Michelle Obama's visit to a London school for girls, and the reactions on the column's comment board were so vile that one of the...