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 ...

Emoji are colorful icons baked into the on-screen keyboard of most smartphones that allow users to express a number of words and ideas through pictographs. These including birthday cakes, rainbows, ...

The Unicode Consortium kicked off a revolution of internet proportions when it introduced the skin tone modifier to a handful of emoji in 2015. Since then, the executive body behind all our emoji (and ...

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 ...

Emoji will become more racially diverse in 2015. An update slated to be released next year will allow users to choose between five different skin tones for all their humanoid emoji characters. “People ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Unicode Consortium kicked off a revolution of internet proportions when it introduced the skin tone modifier to a handful of emoji in 2015. Since then, the executive body behind all our emoji (and ...