NAACP Responds to Journalist's Open Letter. Is it Enough?

Following the NAACP’s 42nd annual presentation of the Image Awards earlier this month, Eric Chambers(at left), the producer and host of The Jazzspel, a Saturday-morning program on The Word Network,  issued a fiery open letter addressed to NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous and the chairwoman of the organization’s board of directors Roslyn M. Brock.

In the letter, Chambers takes issue with the promotion for the awards and press credentials that were — and weren’t — issued by the the organization’s PR firm The Lippin Group.

The letter says (Chambers’ emphasis):

Unfortunately, your public relations representatives, The Lippin Group, is NNF:not Negro-friendly and in my estimation need some serious diversity training.

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