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 ...

The yellow heart emoji along with the other was approved under Unicode 60 in 2010. Across all social platforms the yellow emoji comes with a golden hue which looks amazing when shared. The yellow ...

On top of wondering why there's still no taco emoji, though, many of us have found ourselves trying to figure out this other long-standing conundrum: Why are emoji yellow?

Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection.

Apple's updates to the emoji were supposed to make them more diverse. So what's up with the yellow face?

And that's because, depending on your race, they could denote white privilege, especially if you use the yellow thumbs-up emoji.

However, as pictures of the upcoming characters spread, some people weren't happy about the new yellow-faced human emoji. To many people, it seemed like the yellow emoji were supposed to represent ...

Counterintuitively, the brunette white person emoji might actually force white people to think more seriously about their race and the privileges afforded to it ...

A global translation firm based in London is looking to employ an 'emoji translator'. It's already received about 100 applications from around the world.

Rizz also made an appearance in Australian's Macquarie Dictionary word of the year shortlist but lost out to "cozzie livs", the colloquial shortening of the phrase "cost of living".

Apple’s new release of iOS 8.3 beta and OS X 10.10.3 beta for testers includes a long-awaited emoji update, with new, racially diverse humanoid emoji.

The Holy Moly emoji, aka Holay Molay, is a wide-eyed yellow emoticon that exclaims 'the phrase 'Holy Moly!' in a speech bubble over its head.