Former Trib Columnist Dawn Turner Remembers Growing Up in Bronzeville In New Memoir

Former Chicago Tribune columnist Dawn Turner reflects on home, family, friends in a new memoir about growing up in Bronzeville in the 1970s.

Former Trib Columnist Dawn Turner Remembers Growing Up in Bronzeville In New Memoir
Former Trib Columnist Dawn Turner Remembers Growing Up in Bronzeville In New Memoir

Former Trib Columnist Dawn Turner Remembers Growing Up in Bronzeville In New Memoir

Former Chicago Tribune columnist Dawn Turner reflects on home, family, friends in a new memoir about growing up in Bronzeville in the 1970s.

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Dawn Turner spent 15 years writing about race and class as a columnist for the Chicago Tribune and spotlighting ordinary people whose stories don’t often get told. Now, she shares her own story about growing up in the city’s South Side Bronzeville neighborhood in the 1970s in a new memoir.

GUEST: Dawn Turner, author and former Chicago Tribune columnist