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 ...

When the news hit Monday that Apple’s next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we’d finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for the human emoji.

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1664, Maryland passed the first British colonial law banning marriage between whites and slaves. An 1883 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that state prohibitions on interracial marriage ...

Recently, a friend of mine used the brown hand-waving emoji in a tweet to direct people’s attention toward a job posting. It was the kind of the thing that most of us do without much thought: Drop an ...

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 ...