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“After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word ‘Black’ when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for ...
The NYT's editors' note was published on June 30, five days after the op-ed you linked to. The decision to capitalize "Black" in this context was announced in the paper itself on July 5. Since then, they do in fact use the uppercase "B", e.g. . —Sangdeboeuf 20:41, 31 August 2020 (UTC) Ah, I see.
As journalists grapple with massive protests and sweeping changes in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, U.S. newsrooms are debating an important style change: whether to capitalize the “b ...
Ask Angelia answers reader's question on media's use of capitalization on one race, lowercase on others
"Black" and "White" are catch-all terms and do not refer to a single nationality or ethnicity "Black" and "White" are ordinary words denoting colors, therefore no need to capitalize them. Simple answers to both - "Asian" is a much larger catch-all term referring to over 2.5 billion people, or nearly half the world's population, and that's ...
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
Ethno-racial "color labels" may be given capitalized (Black and White) or lower-case (black and white); do not mix the styles inconsistently in the same article (Black but white). [1] Brown should not be used in Wikipedia's own voice, as it is ambiguous and in the current popular sense is informal , an Americanism , and a neologistic usage ...
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