Dawn Turner Trice

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken this month found that former President Bill Clinton, the so-called first black president, is falling out of favor with African-Americans. More of the...

Why do African-Americans consider themselves African-American? Is the hyphen unpatriotic? Is there such a thing as white privilege? What's at the root of the black/brown divide? Why didn't more blacks...

Alternatives, a North Side youth agency, recently held three forums for teenagers ages 14 to 19. The series was called "Let's Talk about Sex." And talk, they did. In a...

Next week, Dr. Carl Bell will give a talk at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor during a conference, "Depression on College Campuses: Creating Healthy Communities." Bell, a psychiatrist, is a...

You need only take a whiff of last week's malodorous and embarrassing Cook County Board budget meetings to understand why voters are tired of political bickering. Did I say tired?...

"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." -- Michelle Obama Every time Sen. Barack Obama wins a Democratic presidential primary or a...

If a man or woman campaigning to be the next president of the United States didn't have a detailed plan to fight foreign terrorists, we'd think he or she was...

If you love outdoor activities, apparently you're in a minority. That's according to Oliver Pergams, a conservation biologist and visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Last week,...

For Ernest Ricketts, Super Tuesday brought back memories of the high school talent show in Park Ridge where his tone-deaf friend Hillary Rodham was asked to mouth the words to...

I'm downstairs in the kitchen. My 13-year-old daughter is upstairs on the telephone. I hear her pacing as she talks on a three-way call to Shannon and Maureen. I hear...