AP Style-Black-white, ADVISORY

Editors, News Directors:

AP’s style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses.

This decision follows our move last month to capitalize Black in such uses. We consulted with a wide group of people internally and externally around the globe and considered a variety of commentary in making these decisions.

As the AP Stylebook currently directs, we will continue to avoid the broad and imprecise term brown in racial, ethnic or cultural references. If using the term is necessary as part of a direct quotation, we will continue to use the lowercase.

We will closely watch how usage and thought evolves, and will periodically review our decisions.

For more details, please visit: http://apne.ws/LyVzL3C.

The AP