The Committee on Communications, Press, Publicity, and Technology

1. 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; 

2. 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, and cable television); 

3. Seeks to ensure Black minority ownership and control of print, electronic media, and technology enterprises—both hardware and software; 

4. Monitors local and national media, especially advertising performance; 

5. Provides the National Office with research and data on those local businesses engaged in communications, arts, sciences, and technology; 

6. 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; 

7. Works 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; 

8. Embraces technology as a key social determinant of health and for positively advocating and educating at the grassroots level; and 

9. Monitors social media and other outlets for appropriate branding, marketing, and proprietary use.