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Wu-Tang rapper/producer The RZA walked away as the winner of the Hip-Hop Chef Federation's 1st Annual Chess Kings Invitational Champion Belt last week in San Francisco.

The Staten Island bred emcee won the tournament on October 13, maintaining an undefeated record by defeating the GZA and by beating Wu-Tang affiliate Monk in the first round.

"The children are the real winners today" Hip-Hop Chess Federation co-founder Adisa Banjoko told AllHipHop.com. "The undeniable success of the Chess Kings Invitational is a powerful testament to a new era of philanthropy within Hip-Hop."

The Hip-Hop Chess Federation's Kings Invitational was launched help to benefit under privileged schools in the area.

The event also featured discussions on the connection between Hip-Hop, chess and martial arts.

Not only was a Republican elected president a year earlier, but Democrats lost their generation-long grip on the Senate.

They were searching for answers.

"Democrats need . . . to regain their own positive political vision," wrote then-Sen. Gary Hart, who was settling in to his second Senate term and scratching out the first of two presidential bids.

"Clearly, we can't do this by focusing first on the Republicans and then designing our own agenda in reaction to them. The party's future lies in the creation and articulation of a positive — not reactive — agenda."

Sounds like good advice for today's Democrats and Republicans.

The Hart piece was a fascinating read, given that we're now officially mired in high political season, where too often glitzy campaign ads, celebrity stumpers and soaring rhetoric substitute for substance and new ideas.

Low-interest loans for energy-saving home renovations. Money to tear up desert lawns and replace them with drought-resistant landscaping.

Frustrated by what they see as insufficient action by the federal government, municipalities around the country are offering financial incentives to get people to go green.

"A lot of localities recognize they're going to get a lot more done using carrots and incentives rather than regulatory means," said Jason Hartke, director of advocacy for the U.S. Green Building Council.

In Parkland, where the motto is "Environmentally Proud," the city near Boca Raton plans next year to begin dispensing cash rebates to its 25,000 residents for being more environmentally friendly.

"We will literally issue them a check," said Vice Mayor Jared Moskowitz.

Despite having access to top physicians and specialists, city dwellers � including New Yorkers � are less likely to receive early cancer diagnoses than residents of rural settings.

In a study of lung and colorectal patients, those who lived in urban settings sought care at later stages of disease, according to a paper published this month in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Last month, the National Association of County and City Health Officials reported that residents of the country's 54 largest cities had higher mortality rates than the national average. In a comparison of cities, New York had one of the lowest mortality rates among cancer patients, ranking 53 out of 54, where 54 represented the lowest mortality rate. In 2004, there were 170.2 cancer deaths for every 100,000 individuals in the general population, compared to 184.6 cancer deaths out of 100,000 individuals nationwide.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Hampton University has been named among the best in historically black colleges across the nation. U.S. News and World Report released the first-ever ranking today. Hampton came in at Number Three behind Spelman College in Atlanta and Howard University in Washington, D.C. Other Virginia schools that made the list included Virginia State University, which came in at Number 15. Norfolk State University tied for Number 34 out of 34 rankings issued with three other colleges in West Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama. There are a little more than a hundred historically black colleges and universities across the nation. Scattered mostly across the South, they were typically formed during segregation to serve black students who white schools turned away. The magazine uses factors like graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, financial resources and alumni giving to determine where to place colleges.

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