When they were first launched in 2015, emoji skin tones corrected an obvious wrong.Previously, if a black man or a Latino woman wanted to text a friend the thumbs-up emoji on an iPhone, a white ...

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

Now, note the euphemisms White Man uses to sidestep any critical dialogue about race— he puts appropriated in quotations, describes it as a “symbolic concern” and says the friend is being ...

The Unicode Consortium, arbiter of all things emoji-related, has at last revealed the highly-anticipated list of 230 new emojis that will be added to smart phones next month. The class of 2019 ...

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 other is a nondescript Asian man. Strangely, although emoji are Japanese, the majority of the characters exhibit Anglo-Saxon features and there are no female Asians represented, even though ...