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To start with, let us stipulate that any discussion involving race is fraught: Even thinking there is such a thing as race is controversial, since many anthropologists believe that people cannot be so grouped biologically.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/the-case-for-black-with-a-capital-b.html|title=Opinion {{!}} The Case for Black With a Capital B|last=Tharps|first=Lori L.|date=2014-11-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-12-09|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|quote=n 1926, The New York Times denied his request, as did most other newspapers. In 1929, when the editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica informed Du Bois that Negro would be lowercased in the article he had submitted for publication, Du Bois quickly wrote a heated retort that called “the use of a small letter for the name of twelve million Americans and two hundred million human beings a personal insult.” The editor changed his mind and conceded to the capital N, as did many other mainstream publications including The Atlantic Monthly and, eventually, The New York Times.
On March 7, 1930, The Times announced its new policy on the editorial page: “In our Style Book, Negro is now added to the list of words to be capitalized. It is not merely a typographical change, it is an act in recognition of racial respect for those who have been generations in the ‘lower case.’ ”}}</ref> [[Feminista Jones]] described it in ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community ... [and are] proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes."<ref name=Jones17July2013>Feminista Jones, [http://www.salon.com/2013/07/17/how_twitter_fuels_black_activism/ "Is Twitter the underground railroad of activism?"], ''Salon'', 17 July 2013.</ref> Similar Black Twitter communities are growing in [[South Africa]]<ref name=Serino7March2013/>
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