> AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense [...] The lowercase black is a color, not a person. [...] > > White people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. [...] We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore those problems. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, **risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs**.