Orrin Hudson's Life Lessons in Chess

Published August 5, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to teacher, mentor and motivational speaker Orrin Hudson about how life is like a game a chess and what young African Americans can learn from it.

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