⁍ Albert Broussard, a longtime history textbook writer for McGraw Hill, is planning to capitalize the b in Black in a lengthy revision to a history textbook used in American middle and high schools.

⁍ His revisions are happening as civil unrest grips the nation and while experts argue that change is needed in how Black history is taught in the US.

⁍ McGraw Hill is one of the country’s largest K-12 textbook publishers that may use Black capitalized following protests over the death of George Floyd.

– “I just personally would like to see it capitalized because I think African-American and Black are used interchangeably by most people in the population,” textbook writer Albert Broussard tells CNN. “If you start children out thinking about Black or White or any group that way, that’s how they will think about them for the rest of their lives.” Broussard is revising a history textbook for middle and high school students, and McGraw Hill, one of the country’s largest textbook publishers, is “strongly considering” capitalizing “Black” instead of “African-American,” the company tells CNN. Other textbook publishers, including Cengage and the New York Times, have already capitalized “Black” or “White” in recent months in response to protests over the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers. “It is very important, in my opinion, to use Black instead of black,” Gerardo Mu, a social studies teacher and co-host of the podcast “Too Dope Teachers and a Mic,” tells CNN. “In a very subtle way, black minimizes the importance of being Black.