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Pitts Chapel is the oldest historically Black church in Springfield. SPD is asking that anyone with information contact the department.

The Queen City is growing more diverse, and a demographically similar city elected their first Black representative last year. Is Springfield next?

"We're gonna keep on walking, keep on talking ... we're gonna march into the freedom land," a local choir sang in support of Martin Luther King Day.

The march begins at 9 a.m. Jan. 17 at Jordan Valley Ice Park before walking over the historic Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge to Park Central Square.

View Comments At a Springfield vigil pushing federal voting rights legislation and honoring civil rights icon John Lewis, Missouri state House Minority Leader Crystal Quade warned that Missouri Republicans could restrict voting rights in the Show-Me state if Congress doesn’t act.   “For the past five years that I've been in Jefferson City, legislators continue to tell us that voters don't know what they're talking about and so then what we see every year is legislation moving through the process to restrict access to voting. We have to stop it,” the Springfield Democrat told several ...