Dawn Turner Trice

I was having lunch recently with a woman I've known for years, mostly in passing. We had decided to have lunch to get to know one another better. Lemi Erinkitola...

Last week, I wrote about a Fenger High School teacher who had been in the headlines recently, accused of creating a blog that made some rather ugly generalizations about the...

If you're looking for a feel-good story, you're going to want to read this one--beyond the not-so-feel-good parts--all the way to the end. Recently, Tribune education reporter Tracy Dell'Angela told...

`They aren't leaving a thing to the imagination.' That's one of my mother's favorite expressions. And she recently served it up during a conversation we were having about pregnant women...

A group of young girls made such a fuss last year about a line of Abercrombie & Fitch shirts that read, "Who needs brains when you've got these?" that the...

One of the things that has struck me most about the immigration reform rallies in Chicago and other cities has been the large number of students participating. During the big...

The number puzzle game Sudoku has solidified in my mind why I don't dare dabble in illicit drugs. Nearly everything you read regarding Sudoku (pronounced Sue-DOUGH-koo, though spellings and pronunciations...

Earlier this month when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded rappers Three 6 Mafia the best-song Oscar for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the...

On an evening in October 1992, Dana Irvin and her family were in a car riding through the Englewood neighborhood. A friend was driving, and Irvin was in the passenger...