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...Harlem Chess Center, which opened four months ago, it is common for grownups to get thrashed by pint-size chess prodigies. In the same tough neighborhood, the Dark Knights team at Mott Hall, a middle school for gifted students, last year won the national championship in the prestigious U.S. Chess Federation tournament. The victory was especially sweet because the Dark Knights didn't have the private chess tutors used by many of their opponents and couldn't afford to compete in as many practice tournaments. Their win "sent a message to the community about achievement," says team booster Welsh...
...young boy in Harlem was sitting at a computer in a library, clearly loving the experience. When asked why, he said of the computer, "It doesn't know I'm black." We are no closer to one another than we wish...
NAME: N.Y.C. cabbies OCCUPATION: Tolerating rude passengers FIRST PUNCH: Five taxi drivers sped past as Glover and his daughter tried to hail a cab in Harlem; a driver who did stop tried to prevent the 6-ft. 4-in. actor from sitting in the front seat, which has more legroom...
...Actually, it is from the biography of Malcolm X. One of our friends was reading the book at the time. He told us that it was a sketchy restaurant in Harlem. And since three of us are named Jimi, we thought Jimmie's Chicken Shack was appropriate...
...Boston artists standing on the steps of the Boston Public Library is used again and again. This photograph, called A Great Day in Boston, is--as acknowledged by the photographer--a direct quotation of a famous photograph taken by Art Kane in 1958 called A Great Day in Harlem, which showed a very large and proud group of seminal jazz musicians smiling at the camera...