Why I don’t believe the word ‘black’ should always have a capital 'b' | Minna Salami

The increasing use of the uppercase letter seems empowering - but no one should impose any rules on blackness

Anti-racism. Allyship. Accountability. These are some of the key words that have accompanied the Black Lives Matter protests over the past year. But one little-noticed change is to the word black itself. Since the protests, people have started to capitalise the b" when writing about black people.

The Associated Press updated its influential style guide, known as a bible for journalism", to capitalise the b", stating that the lowercase black is a color, not a person". A significant number of news agencies, magazines, universities, publishers and cultural institutions followed suit.