Dawn Turner Trice

Ever since a May 2004 event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision, entertainer Bill Cosby has been a traveling salesman of...

Why has comedian Michael Richards, who played "Seinfeld's" Kramer, gotten so many people worked up with his recent tasteless comments and use of the N-word, while VH1's "Flavor of Love...

You had much to say about last week's column on Joyce Muschamp. She lives in beleaguered Englewood near the police station and feels she and other neighbors get shortchanged if...

When Joyce Muschamp's basement was burgled in the wee hours of Oct. 2, she was disappointed that her neighbor's presence across the street failed to discourage the offenders. Her neighbor's...

When I was about 9 or 10, I spent an afternoon trying to teach my 50-year-old great uncle how to read. I had arrived at my grandmother's apartment, where he...

So when did hope become audacious? Of course, I'm thinking about the title of our Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's new book, "The Audacity of Hope." Last week, I saw...

Two little girls, both 11 and giggly, were sitting in the back seat of my car, girl-talking on a recent Saturday evening. One of the girls, the one with my...

On the surface this appears to be a story about a 4 1/2-foot-high fence. And it would be a story solely about a 4 1/2-foot-high fence if the fence weren't...

Do you think that when there's a scandal, particularly a sex scandal involving politicians, that Republicans get slammed harder when they're at the center than Democrats? Or is it just...

Gee, does U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) want to keep a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. This may be most evident in how the speaker of the...