Dawn Turner Trice

I've been trying to figure out what breaks my heart most about the deaths of the two little girls recently shot and killed in homes in the Englewood neighborhood. Both...

During this weekend of Oscar frenzy, I finally got around to seeing "Something New," a movie that wasn't nominated for an award but piqued my curiosity nonetheless. "Something New" is...

When asked in a recent University of Chicago study whether the federal government should spend whatever is necessary to rebuild New Orleans and return residents to their homes in the...

My daughter's 5th-grade social studies class just recently finished studying the Revolutionary War. The students have learned about the tyrannical British King George III, who wouldn't play nice with the...

When you write a column on how to balance the rights of patients with those of healthcare workers and among the first e-mail messages you get, one begins: "Your column...

Let's say you're a pharmacist who refuses to fill a prescription for the morning-after pill because you still consider it an abortion pill, despite much evidence to the contrary. Or,...

Last week I told you about Females United for Action, a group of young women who are protesting an ad that a radio station has been running to promote a...

Does this ad offend you? It offended Daisy Zamora, 20, when she saw it near Western and Elston Avenues. It incensed Itzia Favela, 18, who saw it at 36th Street...

To teach herself how to drive, my mother spent a few summer evenings about 30 years ago tailgating cars up and down Martin Luther King Drive, not far from the...

In 1993 a national conference of archivists convened at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. One of the topics of discussion was how to persuade African-American church leaders to do...