NEW YORK — 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 ...

Why doesn't the ? emoji support skin tones? It's a mystery that has troubled Redditors for years — so we asked an emoji historian to break it down for us.

Unlike the current one-tone handshake emoji, these new emojis needed separate code for two different hands (and for many combinations, two different skin tones). These emoji were supposed to be ...

Making up a large chunk of those new emoji are 55 characters to represent couples of different genders and skin tones. A new emoji — a standing person — will be used to create the couples.

Before Apple introduced its racially diverse emoji options back in 2015, people of color were used to using the ubiquitous skin tone from The Simpsons in our digital communications. Since then ...

On Thursday the Unicode Consortium — of which Apple is a part — announced the 179 candidates that are on the shortlist for emoji in Unicode 12, which should reach iPhones and other mobile ...

When the Unicode Consortium rolls out Emoji 14.0 sometime in 2022, it will include a new handshake character that will allow you to modify the skin tones of both the left and right hands for a ...

To change the skin tone, tap and hold Raise Hand and the hand you prefer. Use the emoji icon to raise your hand. Dave Johnson 3. The icon for a raised hand appears over your profile icon for ...

Gmail’s new emoji picker on the web is getting a long overdue upgrade. You’ll be to pick skin tones and gender preferences thanks to a new arrow next to certain emoji.

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday showed off 236 draft candidates for Emoji 12.0, which should make its way onto Apple platforms sometime in 2019 with iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.

Parrott, the only Black person in the room, submitted 536 diverse emoji for consideration, including hand gestures with different skin tones and people representing different ethnic groups, to ...

New in Emoji 13.0: Pinched Fingers, with skin tone support #Emoji2020 https: ... I literally tweeted the other day that we need an Italian hand emoji. They know — em (@emjonnes) January 30, 2020.