It’s the latest iteration in a long history of grappling with what words to use when discussing race.
“Black with a capital B refers to people of the African diaspora. Lowercase black is simply a color,”, a journalism professor at Temple University. In an interview Thursday, she noted that she is making the same demand that Du Bois did nearly a century ago: “We are a community of people who deserve to be referenced with the capital letter. We are not speaking of people’s skin color, we are speaking of a culture.
The Seattle Times and the Boston Globe made the shift last year. The Associated Press, whose stylebook remains the standard for many U.S. news organizations, said that, for now, it is still using lowercase for black and white.
A related question becomes how to refer to white people. NABJ recommends capitalizing “whenever a color is used to appropriately describe a race.” One concern is that white supremacists often capitalize “white” in their literature. Thus far, most news organizations have said they will keep white as lowercase.
Still, Glover argues that the debate over “white” shouldn’t slow organizations from shifting their style to “Black.” She called it the simplest way to begin establishing trust with the black community. “It doesn’t get any easier than this,” she said.
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