Dawn Turner Trice

On a sunny afternoon in September 1988, Jamie Kalven's wife, Patsy Evans -- athletic, strong, lithe -- was jogging along the lakefront in Hyde Park when she was severely beaten...

Last week I told you about a Bronzeville hair salon that was holding a celebration of black women sporting their natural hair. Jeanne M. of Flossmoor read the column and...

Five years ago, the Thapelo Institute, a Chicago-based organization of African-American health professionals, put together a public-service announcement featuring then-8th Ward Ald. Todd Stroger. Because Thapelo (pronounced THA-pell-oh) focuses on...

Michelle Hughes has brown, curly hair that's fine in texture. Depending on the season, her skin color ranges from a light olive brown to a creamier hue. When she meets...

There are fathers and father figures. But then there are men who kind of take the patriarchal model and turn it on its head. Joe Durkin, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, has...

A colleague who writes and cares about issues of poverty and crime rides the CTA's Green Line into work from a western suburb. Over the last several weeks, he's been...

When telling the story of the Iraq war's death toll, visuals often can help us wrap our minds around it. In January 2004, nearly a year after the war started,...

The school auditorium smells of epoxy products. That's what hits you first. Then the voices of teenagers who are gathered at the foot of the stage, listening to a transistor...

I'm in central Illinois, driving east on Interstate Highway 74 to cover a story. It's a couple of days before Mother's Day. Before graduating from the University of Illinois at...

Did you know that many people who struggle with mental illnesses -- such as bipolar disorder, severe depression and schizophrenia -- mark their college years as the coming-of-age time for...