Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

EXCLUSIVE: “Plan to leave something behind so your name’ll live on / no matter what the game lives on,” says Nas on his 1999 album Nastradamus, and now the revered rapper is making some moves in a new ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

We start with a big personal thank you to D.C.’s venerable Black Knights Chess Team, which earlier this month awarded this column and this columnist a “lifetime achievement award” at its third annual ...

A 19-year-old Black teenager has made chess history. According to the Black News, chess player Jessica Hyatt, 19, recently became the youngest African American woman to earn the National Master title.

Note: David R. Sands is taking the week off. The following is a reprint of a column that ran Feb. 22, 2022. “As a matter of fact, one can claim the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area was the ...