COMMUNICATIONS, PRESS & PUBLICITY

DARRYL L. JEFFRIES 

CHAIRPERSON

The Committee on Communication, Press and Publicity shall: (1) seek 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; (2) work 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}; (3) seek to ensure Black minority ownership and control of print and electronic media----both hardware and software; (4) monitor local and national media, especially advertising performance; (5) provide the National office with research and date on those local businesses engaged in communication arts and sciences; (6) seek 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; (7) endeavor to secure publicity for the work of the Unit and the Association in the local press and on radio, television and other media; (8) attempt to interest persons in charge of local news media on condition affecting minority groups: (9) seek to counteract derogatory and erroneous statements in local news media about Blacks and other minority groups; (10) be responsible for forwarding to the “Crisis” items covering Unit activities and important local affairs: and (11) act as far as possible as an agency for the promotion and sale of the “Crisis”. No publicity shall be released without the first being approved by the President of the Unit.