With Gmail’s new emoji picker, you’ll be able to pick skin tones and gender preferences by clicking a little arrow that shows up next to emoji where those options are available.

But Zara Rahman, a researcher and writer in Berlin, argues that the skin tone emojis make white people confront their race as people of color often have to do. For example, she shared Sarai Cole's ...

But your trepidation about which emoji skin tone to use has evidently weighed on many white people's minds since 2015, when the Unicode Consortium—the mysterious organization that sets standards ...

Choosing a skin tone emoji can open a complex conversation about race and identity for some. Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino.

Today, selecting a different skin tone – by long-pressing – will result in Gboard making your choice the default emoji that appears in the grid. However, this is set on a per-character basis.

Available now to select usersIt's hard to remember a time when skin tone emoji weren't a thing, with WhatsApp first introducing them all the way back in 2015. However, even today there are some ...