Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

Among their Black History Month events, Park Circle will host a prominent exhibit throughout February which highlights works crafted by local Black artists.

Nearly three decades later, the “local artist” has a name. Up until the wife of the man who painted the Big Bat reached out to the Slugger Museum, John Yates’s identity was a mystery.

Angus Batey remembers how 40 years ago the classic Smiths second album helped change the direction of his life ...