Tag: Capital B Campaign
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Today in Black History: The New York Times Capitalized the B in Black!
Last week, a reporter from the Chronicle of Higher Education called me to get a quote for a story she was working on about why we capitalize the letter B in Black when referring to Black people. Apparently, there are some Black academics out there in the world who are fighting to keep the b…
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Flashback Friday: The Capital B Campaign
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I can’t believe five years have passed. Yes, it’s been almost five years since I penned that opinion piece in the New York Times, advocating for the capital B when writing about Black Americans. But yes, it was November 18, 2014 that the world learned how I really felt about living in…
