Dawn Turner Trice

When my father-in-law was a boy in 1930s Paducah, Ky., he and his friends used to go to the park, steal a swig from the "Whites Only" water fountain and...

I was taking a spin through Christian Lander's funny and irreverent Web site that lists the "Stuff White People Like," such as: No. 1 coffee; No. 9 making you feel...

Three days after losing a massive chunk of the "white working-class vote" in West Virginia last week, Sen. Barack Obama held a town hall meeting in South Dakota to talk...

After the Indiana and North Carolina presidential primaries last week I posted an item on our online forum "Exploring Race," (at www.chicago tribune.com/race) asking readers to analyze what Barack Obama's...

Mary Cozzens and Ele Santini are social workers who have worked for years in the acute rehab unit of their Melrose Park hospital. About six months ago, they were asked...

We're aware of the way fairly civil arguments can go south, right? While one person talks, the other appears to be engaged but really is biding time to squeeze in...

You can't have a discussion about race without taking stock of the hell that some young black and Hispanic men are putting their communities through. This weekend, a rash of...

Say you are a white person who's at a dinner party and a subject involving race surfaces. The topic could be about anything, from the comments made by Barack Obama's...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been reading your e-mail regarding the online project we've begun to explore race, at chicagotribune.com/race. Every day new questions flood my e-mail basket...

As more details about Mr. [Jeremiah] Wright and his many brothers-in-arms black preachers are exposed in our media, it turns out that not only is Wright's version of "black liberation...