Anyiwo: Black should be capitalized in textbooks, and educators should explain why

This summer, as protests across the country have called for racial justice, textbook authors and publishers are weighing an important style choice: Should Black be capitalized?

When children see a lowercase Black in textbooks, “it can operate as an implicit form of racial messaging that perpetuate Black inferiority,” Nkemka Anyiwo, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn GSE’s Racial Empowerment Collaborative recently told CNN.

But Anyiwo said textbook publishers and educators cannot stop with a case change.

"We cannot truly 'capitalize' Black until we teach about how the beauty and power of Black resistance and advocacy for social justice have contributed to advances in the rights and freedoms of all Americans," Anyiwo said.

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