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“The lowercase black is a color, not a person.” A month later, a new headline “hit the wire,” as we say in the journalism business: “ AP says it will capitalize Black but not white ”.
Ethno-racial "color labels" may be given capitalized (Black and White) or lower-case (black and white). [h] The capitalized form will be more appropriate in the company of other upper-case terms of this sort (Asian–Pacific, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Indigenous, [i] and White demographic categories).
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
"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 capitalized "White" and "Black" are color words, but their meaning is clearly different (Black people aren’t black and White people aren’t white), but the words refer specifically to ethnicity.
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 ...