Dawn Turner Trice

Good riddance to Chief Illiniwek. May he rest in peace. As a University of Illinois alum, I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see him go and the...

I am more and more convinced that African Americans and whites occupy two different perceptual worlds. That doesn't mean that we can't live next door to one another, or even...

If you are an African-American who is, dare I say it, well-spoken, you have a good idea what a white person means when he or she calls you "articulate." It's...

One of my best friends is a white man named Ken. He's married to an African-American woman named Denise. They've been married for 16 years and have two beautiful children,...

After Judy Bernardi, a longtime Rogers Park resident, and her husband, Victor, divorced in 1984, he became estranged from the family. In recent years, the only way she could determine...

Politicians, by their very nature, are often people endowed with gargantuan egos. You can imagine that many of them as children probably stood before their bedroom mirrors using their fists...

A couple of days before Saddam Hussein's hanging, I was in a discussion about whether his execution should be delayed for the sake of justice. After a couple of minutes...

My daughter was born 12 years ago today. This officially makes her father and me the proud parents of a preteen. Whenever I say aloud that we are on the...

By the time the Christmas season is over, our wallets will be a wee bit lighter. But there are some gifts that cost little but are, dare I say it,...

In the early 1980s, my mother decided to purchase real estate. We were living in the Bronzeville neighborhood in a high-rise apartment building, and she didn't want to move. She...