There are five skin tone emojis to choose from, but doing so can open a complex conversation about race and identity. Which skin color emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex than you ...

So a lot of times I find myself texting a friend... (SOUNDBITE OF IPHONE NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...Or messaging a co-worker... (SOUNDBITE OF SLACK NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...And I want to ...

I don't think it's possible to determine what any group of people, categorically, might find insensitive—and I won't venture to speak, as a white person myself, on behalf of people of color. But your ...

The fact that light skin is the default emoji might not seem like a big deal, especially if you yourself are light-skinned. But it has real world consequences, mostly for non-white groups. Please do ...

After years of texting highlighter-yellow handshakes to our friends, multi-skin toned handshake emoji are coming to our phones in 2022. The Unicode Consortium, which — among other things — sets the ...

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...