Springfield, MO—A contract to expand the Student African American Brotherhood within Springfield Public Schools was narrowly approved at the August meeting in a 4-3 board vote. A four-person board majority — Denise Fredrick, Danielle Kincaid, Shurita Thomas-Tate, and Scott Crise — voted in support of spending $64,605 in the coming year to offer the mentoring program in middle schools.
The SAAB program, which relocated its national headquarters to Springfield in the summer 2020, operates chapters in Springfield high schools and local colleges.
John W Boone and the Blind Boone Concert Company
July 2, 2024
John W. Boone, initially known as Willie, was born in a Union Army camp in Miami, Missouri, on May 17, 1864. His mother, Rachel Boone,
