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NAACP says it's watching film industry

LOS ANGELES NAACP president Kweisi Mfume reports that the NAACP has been quietly assessing data on the film industry.

"We are amassing huge amounts of data on the industry so that we're able to discern where that industry is relative to where we think they ought to be, in terms of opportunities that are being made available," he told the Hollywood Reporter during the second annual NAACP Image Awards luncheon Thursday at the St. Regis Hotel in Century City, Calif.

The NAACP has been highly and publicly critical of the lack of minorities in front of and behind television cameras. In 1999, the group attacked the networks when they released 26 new shows and not one featured a person of color in ...

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