Our hair is a big part of our identities. But when it comes to finding an emoji that represents us, there aren't that many options to choose from. There's some hope on the horizon. The Unicode ...

For almost a year now, New York-based freelance writer Rhianna Jones has been signing a lot of her emails with, "insert Afro emoji here." That's because there is no Afro hair emoji. Jones ...

“I asked my fellow Afro’d friend and Graphic Designer Kerrilyn Gibson to design the original Afromoji; we wanted her hair to take up as much space as possible in the minute parameters of emoji.” ...

A moment of silence is in order. Curly haired beauties are having a moment because a natural hair emoji may be coming soon to a mobile device near you. And honestly, it's about damn time.

A proposed change to the Unicode standard this week plans to introduce emoji customization, so that you’re able to change the hair color or gender of an emoji. UTS 52 is a change that would ...