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The 'World Emoji Day', marked on 17 July, is a chance to look back at the developments in communications and the social media lexicon.

Katrina Parrott has sued Apple for copyright infringement, alleging that the company made emoji with different skin tones years after she developed her own application that did the same thing.

She brought diverse skin tones emoji to the iPhone. Now shes suing Apple Reed Albergotti, The Washington Post March 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Katrina Parrott, founder of iDiversicons, is shown with her apps emoji on Feb. 23, 2021 in Houston.Photo for The Washington Post by May-Ying Lam For Katrina Parrott, being invited to present her idea to Apple at its campus in Cupertino, Calif., felt like a dream. Less than a year earlier, she had been laid off from her job with NASA in Texas. Now, sh...

Apple’s new $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative aims to help the Black community. But it was too late for Katrina Parrott, a Black woman who helped Apple invent diverse skin tone emojis, before the iPhone maker came out with its own designs.