It’s about time we got Afro emoji — these women are making it happen

Various communities have finally been represented in emoji form, from interracial couples to the trans community and those living with disabilities. But while there seems to be an emoji to represent everyone and everything, a significant group has been completely left out — people with Afros. Writer an emoji activist Rhianna Jones is on a mission to change that. She’s collected over 37,000 signatures with her campaign ‘Let’s Make the Afro Emoji Happen #AfroHairMatters’ for 2020. Hey Twitter! If you think #AfroHairMatters, let’s make the Afro Hair Emoji happen! I’m submitting an official design proposal to Apple + Unicode this…

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