For Evalynn Bogusz, poetry means lifting voices and stirring hearts.Bogusz, a senior at Heritage High School and the Academy of Science, won Virginia’s Poetry Out Loud competition last month and
BETHEL “A Lecture was given Friday evening of last week at Pattee’s Hall by Mrs. Frances W. Harper, a colored lady.” starts the news item in the Oxford Democrat newspaper on Feb. 23, 1866, less than a year following the end of the Civil War. And continues with a zinger: “Many a man of […]