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    One Woman Wants To Create This: *Insert Afro Emoji Here*

    Writer Rhianna Jones is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for an emoji of a person with an Afro.
    by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Mar 31, 2019 2 minutes
    Kerrilyn Gibson designed prototypes for an Afro hair emoji.

    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, 28, hopes to change that.

    She has teamed up with designer Kerrilyn Gibson, 25, to create an Afro hair emoji prototype on change.org to include the Afro hair emoji on the emoji keyboard.

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