According to the NAACP, the Spingarn Medal is meant to bring awareness to the achievements among Americans of African descent and to inspire African American youth. It was first awarded to Ernest ...

On Jan. 13, 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia slammed into a rocky shoal near the Italian coast and capsized, killing 32 people.

Throughout his lifetime, Wilkins was honored with many awards, including the University’s Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, the Russwurm Award of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the ...

American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, philanthropist and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland will visit UB ...

In 1923, Carver was given the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for distinguished service to science. In 1935, he was appointed a collaborator of the mycology and plant disease survey by the U.S ...

The president of the NAACP Columbus chapter is being told to resign from her position entirely. In a Jan. 22 letter from NAACP national leadership to Nana Watson, sent to The Dispatch on Friday ...

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and the NAACP are going after Southern California Electric on behalf of victims who lost their lives and homes in the devastating Eaton fire in separate lawsuits.