It's time once again for "Everything is Racist." So just the other day, I was sending a text to a close friend of mine. I'm lying. I'm making up an anecdote to kick off this monologue. I don't have ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lot of questions have popped up in light of the new iOS 8.3 update, many of which have to do with emoji. On top of wondering why there's still no taco emoji, though, many of us have found ourselves ...

Apple has finally decided to welcome people of color to the emoji club: Developers testing the latest version of Apple’s operating system reported Monday the addition of 300 new emoji, including ...

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 ...