[Spirit of Liberty]

Media Style guide. Been that way for about a year.

https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-us-news-business-ap-top-news-racial-injustice-71386b46dbff8190e71493a763e8f45a

AP changes writing style to capitalize ″b″ in Black

By The Associated Press
June 19, 2020

The Associated Press changed its influential style guide Friday, June 19, 2020, to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.

The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.

The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,” John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president of standards, said in a blog post Friday. “The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”

[Laslo Fripp]

Thanks.

I knew that. It still irritates me. Apparently the author has a style book, but not a dictionary.

[Maurice Tift]

“The lowercase black is a color, not a person.”

Now that people are defined by their color, the 'b' is capitalized.