The Committee on Communications, Press, Publicity, and Technology shall:

• 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;

• 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, and cable television);

• seek to ensure Black minority ownership and control of print, electronic media, and technology enterprises—both hardware and software;

• monitor local and national media, especially advertising performance;

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

• 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;

• work to ensure that various current and newly advanced technologies are used in a manner that promotes truth, avoids inherent programming biases, and provides education on the positive and negative attributes of a constantly changing technology environment;

• embrace technology as a key social determinant of health and for positively advocating and educating at the grassroots level; and

• monitor social media and other outlets for appropriate branding, marketing, and proprietary use.

Penny Cubit-Williamson is the chair for Communications. She can be reached at communications@wvnaacp.org