One Right Move
Tuesday, August 24 2010
One Right Move
Michael Atamas and Freddie Degraffinreid <<More
Michael Atamas came to Baltimore as a young boy and didn't know a word of English. One of the things that made him feel a little less lost was playing chess with a teacher at his new school. Almost twenty years later Michael was a teacher himself in a Baltimore city school where he had a hard time connecting with his students. Then one day he was playing chess in the classroom and a student said "teach me how to play." Dick talks with Michael, and one of his students, Freddie Degraffinreid, about how Michael found a new way to teach students about the game of chess and the game of life.
- Find out more about the chess league Freddie plays in.
Getting Past the Past
David was a typical teenage kid whose family was just getting by, living paycheck to paycheck. Then his stepfather lost his job and took out his frustrations on David by beating him. Soon David was not only being beaten at home - his stepfather forced him to fight in an underground fighting ring for money. David eventually escaped that life, but he never spoke about what happened to him. Not until a couple of years later when he wrote about it for a class and read his work in front of his classmates. David talks with Dick Gordon about what it meant for him to open up, and in doing so, get past his past.
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