Dawn Turner Trice

We've heard quite a bit about white Democrats who won't vote for Sen. Barack Obama for president because of his race. But what about white people who ARE voting for...

I am angry that we taxpayers have to bail out a reckless and greedy Wall Street. But I'm even angrier that another crisis continues to build and there's hardly an...

When our online forum, "Exploring Race," officially launched in mid-April, I wasn't certain exactly how a discussion about race would play out online. I had written about race in this...

You may know actress/producer Daphne Maxwell Reid from the hit television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Or perhaps you know her from the movie "Once Upon a Time ......

In their popular book, "Made to Stick," Chip and Dan Heath talk about the concept of "identity appeal" as they discuss three questions voters invariably ask when confronted with political...

A recent television ad from Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain says his opponent, Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, supported legislation while in the state Senate to teach comprehensive sex...

An interviewer from BBC radio called me last week. He said he was working on a story about the presidential campaign and was coming to Chicago this week to research...

I'm still amazed at the number of people who brand Michelle Obama as an angry black woman who's un-American. But those who don't like her, or her husband, Democratic presidential...

More than five decades after the start of the modern civil rights movement, the country has its first African-American nominee poised to compete in a general election for the U.S....

It's Sunday and I'm just arriving in town for the Democratic National Convention. I flag a cab and my driver is brown like me with hazel, almost honey-colored eyes that...