Dawn Turner Trice

The big interview on "60 Minutes" last week with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was billed as an opportunity to get to know the man about whom we know...

Seven years ago, I wrote about a New York City-based diversity program called the Posse Foundation that had just opened shop in Chicago. Its objective was to help talented urban...

During the civil rights movement, leaders were extremely picky about the people chosen to represent the cause. Before Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat in the...

There's a story I tell whenever I'm in a circle of writers, and it goes something like this: On the afternoon that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks was dying, a...

It's circa 1975. I'm about 9 years old and my sister is 6 or so. Our living room is a stage set and we've invited our mother to sit for...

From the street, the gray-stone building in the 1300 block of South California Avenue is deceiving. It appears woefully two-dimensional, lacking in depth, color and contrast. But on the inside,...

There are times when it's OK to be totally self-centered. This is exactly that time for the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection. All year, the folks at the Carter G....

In March 2002, I told you about six Hales Franciscan High School students who were campaigning for several gubernatorial candidates during that year's primary. The young men, all African-American, were...

For the last seven years -- at least that's when some people started taking notice -- 12-year-old Devon Robinson has been coming to Englewood's Lindblom Park. During the school year...

In another incarnation, Gary Slutkin was a medical epidemiologist traveling Africa and Asia for the World Health Organization, trying to reduce the magnitude of cholera, tuberculosis and AIDS. In his...