AKRON, Ohio – Hundreds of newsrooms across the country have started capitalizing the ‘b’ in Black when writing about race, ethnicity and culture after the Associated Press and USA Today made changes ...

American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Middle Eastern or North African, multiracial, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, White. The reason for this discrepancy is unclear ...

The Associated Press announced last month it would capitalize the word “Black” when used to describe racial, ethnic or cultural topics, but decided this week that “White” will not receive the same ...

At The Root, we’ve had a long-standing debate over capitalizing the “B” in black. Some of us are adamantly for it, while others (myself included) are grammar freaks who think that if we capitalize ...

CNN staffers were told Thursday night to begin capitalizing not only “Black,” in reference to race, but “White,” too. “When referring to the racial categories of Black and White, CNN style is changing ...