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 ...

News Center 7 celebrates the people and organizations who have progressed our nation forward for more equality and equity to ...

American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, philanthropist and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland will visit UB on Feb. 12 as the university’s 49th Annual Martin Luther King Jr.

She was the first woman to receive the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, the organization’s highest honor. She was active in an era when Blackness was criminalized, Williams says: “Walking on the wrong side of ...

January is Sanctity of Human Life Month. February is Black History Month. The NAACP doesn’t have a word to say about Human Life Month, because those lives don’t matter when they’re the most ...

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 ...

Following a letter asking the Columbus NAACP chapter president to resign, a member of the local leadership team sent a response to the national organization's leadership supporting her.

As soon as former Columbus NAACP President Nana Watson was told to resign via a letter from the national organization's president, her spot was filled by the first vice president of the local branch.

CENTRAL ARKANSAS (KATV) — The Central Arkansas NAACP Branches have come together to speak out against the threats of ICE raids directed towards schools, and the withdrawal of affirmative action ...