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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Apple is adding racially diverse emoji to its OS X desktop operating system. The software's emoji keyboard will include characters in five skin tones based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognised ...