Remembering when the Rooks raged and a chess barrier came down

It might have been the biggest U.S. chess story in the mainstream press since Bobby Fischer's world championship win two decades earlier. The Raging Rooks, a scrappy team of Black, Hispanic and Asian players from Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Junior High School, tied for first in the 1991 U.S. National Junior High School Championships in Dearborn, Michigan.