The waiting list is significant.

It could have been better.

I look at how much they have done.

It's a fantastic way to spend a Saturday. There's something for everyone to do for the young and the young at heart.

This was a good way to end it. Now we just hope we can carry this momentum into the Gulf South [Conference ] Tournament.

History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of Jim Crow, and for whites who cannot understand the hard deal that faces working-class blacks, it is difficult to reconcile Hughes's reputation as a poet-hero with his topical verse and uncomplicated prose.