Robert Spriggs News Today

A new historic marker has gone up at the 138-year-old Mount Salvation Baptist Cemetery, honoring the final resting place for a number of early Halls Hill leaders.

Babachu Spriggs: Near East Side Church gathering mourns ComFest dancer with storied past Holly Zachariah, The Columbus Dispatch © Barbara J. Perenic/Columbus Dispatch Pastor Priscilla Woodson sings at a memorial gathering for Robert "Babachu" Spriggs on Thursday at Miracle Cathedral on the Near East Side. “This articulate man … this model, this dancer, this singer,” Pierce practically roared, “died outside, homeless, on a snowy, frigid day, 80 years old. A senior citi...