2016 recipients of this our nation's highest civilian honor included Frank Gehry & Diana Ross

Artur Avila solved problems in chaos theory & won the Fields Medal described as the Nobel Prize of this area of expertise

The president of Morehouse College was on the first committee to award the Spingarn Medal of this organization

12 years after the Silver Star this metal medal was established in 1944 retroactive to December 7 1941

Poets like Gwendolyn Brooks who have traveled on less-taken roads can win the Poetry Society of America Medal named for him