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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.
"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.
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
Ethno-racial "color labels" may be given capitalized (Black and White) or lower-case (black and white). The capitalized form will be more appropriate in the company of other upper-case terms of this sort (Asian–Pacific, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and White demographic categories). Proposed: Ethno-racial "color labels" may be given ...
I've got someone arguing that Ethno-racial "color labels" may be given capitalized (Black and White) or lower-case (black and white). means B/w is prohibited. Which is not what the RfC decided. There was no consensus against Black/white. I'm going to add that statement. —valereee 17:47, 6 January 2022 (UTC)