Dawn Turner Trice

When 31-year-old Kelwin Harris was growing up in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood in the late 1980s, residents joked that the death knell for a community so overrun with gangs and drugs...

During her visit to London for the G-20 summit last week, Michelle Obama drew comparisons in the mainstream media to Jacqueline Kennedy and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: Their style....

John Hope Franklin, the black historian whose towering intellect was matched only by his dedication to his craft, was one of those people whose passing makes me sigh and feel...

They've become a familiar sight in gay bars: women holding bachelorette parties. The bride-to-be is often easily identifiable. She's the one wearing either a veil or tiara or feather boa...

A year ago Wednesday, Barack Obama delivered his "A More Perfect Union" speech in Philadelphia about race. The Sunday after the speech, I wrote a column announcing our online project,...

A "Sister Souljah moment" occurs when a politician tries to take the middle ground and finds himself having to repudiate a party extremist. The politician does this to show that...

I spent several hours on Saturday in front of my television watching Tavis Smiley's daylong "State of the Black Union" summit held live in Los Angeles. It was the 10th...

At a Black History Month event at the Justice Department last week, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder called us "a nation of cowards" on matters of race. He said most of...

In elementary school, my friend Thomas and I were nerdy and in constant competition. I graduated No. 1 in our class, and Thomas was No. 3. In sports, if he...

Over the last several months, I've said somewhat jokingly that if racial reconciliation on a grand scale is possible, it'll depend in part on old die-hard racists -- of every...