Springfield Baptist Church’s sesquicentennial celebration marks a long and proud legacy of spiritual leadership, social actions and active community engagements. A pillar of African American Society, ...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – Here is a look inside a Greenville County church that has been a pivotal marker in civil rights history. In fact, it’s one of the oldest black Baptist congregations in ...

Editor's note: For more than 140 years, The Greenville News has told the story of our community and the people who live here. Each day this year we are publishing a brief piece of our history – ...

Mary Work had been in Springfield for nearly a decade searching for a church like the one she had left back home in Greenville, Mississippi, when she found herself at Zion Missionary Baptist Church on ...

A Springfield church that’s been around for 140 years will mark that anniversary with a celebration on Sunday. Mt. Zion Baptist Church is referred to by members as one of the city’s largest and most ...