Dawn Turner Trice

An African-American colleague, who happens to be a master numbers cruncher, and I were talking about the guilt that sometimes befalls some of us in the "black middle class" who...

I asked a few of my favorite award-winning and best-selling authors, many with Chicago ties, to give me their summer reading picks. OK, take notes: Attorney and author Scott Turow...

Last Thursday night I arrived about an hour late for Bible study at a church I was visiting. I hadn't been to a Bible study session in years. The lesson...

Earlier this month Vincent Gaughan, the Cook County Criminal Court judge presiding over R&B superstar R. Kelly's child pornography trial, ruled that a videotape that appears to show Kelly engaging...

I first met Daniel Carmickle on a Saturday morning in April 2001 just before dawn. Almost as a dare, he invited me to meet him at a 24-hour McDonald's restaurant...

Recently I wrote about entertainer Bill Cosby's comments during a commencement address to the 2006 graduates of Spelman College in Atlanta. Cosby told the graduates of the historically African-American women's...

It's Monday morning and why, you ask, do I feel like doing a dance up and down an aisle somewhere? Why, with all that's going on in the world, am...

A few hours before entertainer Bill Cosby gave his recent commencement address at Spelman College, Atlanta's historically black women's college, I was sitting in the audience at a graduation ceremony...

I realize that Memorial Day offers us a time to remember our soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield. And certainly they deserve to be commemorated. But...

Let's say you're a mapmaker. You've created a gorgeous map of 237 of Chicago's neighborhoods--from Pilsen to North Lawndale to Edgewater and so on. Rand McNally and the Chicago Historical...