HELEN, Ga. (AP) - It was Mildred White’s first trip to the principal’s office. Mrs. McDonald had called the fourth-grader’s mother to tell her that Mildred had turned in a poetry assignment that she ...

Underneath it all, Mildred White Greear is a poet. She sees things in metaphor. The sound of black families during a lynching? Think of the lowest note a pipe organ can register, she said. Think of a ...