ST. LOUIS — Maurice Ashley remembers the sounds of the gunshots and the blaring sirens that followed. He was playing chess in a Harlem park, like he did most days, and when he looked up from the board ...

At 9:00 on a Saturday morning, a room in New York’s Rockland Community College is filled with nearly 100 Black grade school and high school students all attentively watching one man speak. His name is ...

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — The only African American in the Missouri Chess Hall of Fame lives here in the Kansas City area. In the 1970s and 1980s, Zeb Fortman II rose quickly as a champion in the chess ...