Capitalize the “B” in Black (and not the “w” in white).
2 min readJul 14, 2020
It’s been nearly two hundred years since Ida B. Wells said we should capitalize the “B” in Black when referring to Black people.
Today, Kirkus announced that 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests have informed a new decision to capitalize Black in all future articles when referring to people of African diaspora.
