Dawn Turner Trice

Consider these videos: * One shows a young woman creating a fake profile on the social networking Web site MySpace. She goes to Google and lifts a photograph of an...

I'm in the car talking to the 12-year old in my life. The one who still looks more like her father than me. We're talking about the Virginia Tech shootings....

There's a phrase I hear a lot lately on a certain morning television news show: "Everybody's talking about. . . ." What follows is often something juicy and gossipy and...

Last week, in recognition of spring cleaning, I wrote about 15 rules I'd compiled for doing the laundry. The list clearly struck a chord. Many of you said a rule...

When I was young, I could get out of doing household chores by reading. That was one of my mother's many rules. If you read, you didn't have to wash...

We sort of understand how the national subprime lending mess and mortgage foreclosures have affected Wall Street and investors. Though it's not a pretty picture, it's all fairly clear-cut. But...

Sometimes the value of art appreciates in ways we least expect. That's what Chicagoan Pamela Dallas learned earlier this month about a cityscape she painted in 1968 when she was...

On Election Day last month, Kimberly Harris left her Near South Side apartment early to go vote. She walked a couple of blocks down King Drive to her polling place....

The scales of justice have been tipped so far out of whack for so long in the South's civil rights-era murder cases that it's hard to imagine the possibility of...

I was on a train late in the evening recently when a young African-American man boarded. He was wearing a pair of those baggie jeans that tend to puddle around...