Black & White???

My my... I was browsing through an internet article on Netscape, and here's how it chose to describe certain facts...

The study: More than 1,000 black and white teenagers from North Carolina's Durham, Orange and Granville counties

Black and white????!!! There's something seriously wrong in the usage of language here... I wish they'd use African-Americans & Caucasians instead of using the 2 neutral colors...