Michael Evans stooped over and scratched into the earth as though preparing a future garden instead of tending to the past.Ripping up weeds and sweeping aside sod, the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church illustrated how much attention is needed at the Mansfield Community Cemetery, a graveyard for blacks for more than a century. He uncovered a rusted copper-toned nameplate for a World War I veteran that was embedded into the ground like so many others hidden in brush. Read More