Media Diversity

The NAACP has fought against negative portrayals of people of color in film and television since "Birth of A Nation" in 1915.

Today the NAACP Hollywood Bureau is a satellite of the National office that deals with issues of diversity programming and minority employment in Hollywood, and oversees the production of the NAACP Image Awards.

Blog Posts

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Sean Holcomb-Jones

Diversity in Prime Time Cable News

Media Matters released a study on diversity on primetime cable news programming. It comes as no surprise, that none of the “Big 3” cable networks (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC) are meeting the mark in regards to diversity representation in their programming

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Hilary Shelton, Senior VP Advocacy & Policy/Director of the Washington Bureau

The Trouble with A la carte

A la carte was the really bad idea from several years ago which would have required cable and satellite companies to provide customers access to channels on a “price-per-channel” or a la carte basis.