The Hip-Hop Chess Federation is a San Francisco-area group that uses rap and chess to teach kids life lessons about strategy, discipline and creativity. This weekend, the organization hosts its first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compton, California — Chess is a game of make-believe kings and queens, pawns and rooks. So what does that have to do with real ...

I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to convince my kids to embrace traits that are completely foreign to me. Patience would top that list. I cannot tell you how often I have yelled in a public ...

They gather each Saturday at the Edgewood Recreation Center: a band of impressionable schoolboys, their male mentors and the group’s brain trust, a middle-aged woman determined to change the world, or ...

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 ...

iPhone users may see the new course in late April. Never learned to play chess and don't know where to start? Duolingo, the gamified education app most famous for its language learning lessons, is ...

A chessboard with black and white boxes and 32 pieces are the tools that Teglia found to face violence and marginality. He shared his method with children and teenagers from vulnerable areas and ...