Communications

The Communications Committee:

  • Seeks to promote media content consistent with fundamental NAACP goals which include the elimination of racial isolation and fear and the furtherance of multiracial and cultural understanding;

  • Works to eliminate employment segregation and discrimination in those industries, [comprising the communications arts and sciences] (radio, telephone, television, motion pictures, newspapers, books, related computer communications, business, cable television);

  • Seeks to ensure Black minority ownership and control of print and electronic media — both hardware and software;

  • Monitors local and national media, especially advertising performance;

  • Provides the National Office with research and data on those local businesses engaged in communications arts and sciences;

  • Seeks to ensure that all people have a meaningful right to choose from and have access to a variety of high quality telecommunications goods and services at reasonable cost;

  • Endeavors to secure publicity for the work of the Unit and the Association in the local press and on radio, television and other media;

  • Attempts to interest persons in charge of local news media on conditions affecting minority groups; and

  • Seeks to counteract derogatory and erroneous statements in local news media about Blacks and other minority groups.