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JOHN ROCKER Baseballer arrives in Big Apple for hearing. Goodwill visit to Harlem...
...News," an apt term for the thick, soul-stirring verse he lays down over hip-hop, tribal and bebop grooves. His words are as deeply rooted in African-American culture as the beats that back them; the verse explores Sundiata's own experiences as a native son of Harlem, as well as the stories of black icons like Malcolm X, John Coltrane and Nelson Mandela. In addition to his frequent readings around New York City and his musical theater work (most notably 1994's The Mystery of Love), Sundiata works a day job teaching literature at the New School...
...Chess Federation, the governing body for all tournament play, has 42,000 junior members--an elevenfold increase since 1989. "Years back, people who played chess were considered nerdy," says Barbara DeMaro, a spokeswoman for the federation. "But now chess is cool." Says Brian Hawkins, director of the Harlem Chess Center: "Once more people started playing, it became more acceptable...
Welsh runs the nonprofit Harlem Educational Activities Fund, which bankrolls the chess programs at Mott Hall and the Harlem Chess Center (with donations from, among others, a charitable arm of Time Warner, parent company of this magazine). Much of the credit for Harlem's love affair with chess goes to Maurice Ashley, 33, a grand master and the highest-ranked black player in history. Ashley, who established Mott's chess program a decade ago, saw the game as a way to foster academic achievement and self-esteem. "I call chess intellectual karate," he says. "It's about setting a concrete...
...York City champion for his age group, falls asleep with a chess book almost every night. "I get ideas from studying the mistakes of other players," he says. Hidalgo, an A student who wants to be an engineer, says chess has improved his scholastic performance. Thanks to the Harlem Chess Center, 250 more kids each year will get to learn the game. And with any luck, they, like Hidalgo, will become winners on and off the chessboard...