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Black History Month Week: Capital B w/ Jelani Cobb

Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 10:30 a.m.

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This week, we\\u2019re doing a number of episodes around the history of\\u2026 Black History Month.

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Over the course of this country\\u2019s history, the terms we use to describe black Americans have shifted and signified different things \\u2014 from \\u201ccolored\\u201d to \\u201cnegro\\u201d to \\u201cAfrican-American\\u201d and \\u201cblack.\\u201d There\\u2019s now a debate about whether to capitalize the \\u201cb\\u201d in black.

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Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker to talk about the current debate, and the key moments in the shifting language.

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