A diagram depicting how the Unicode Consortium could create a more diverse array of ethnic emoji. Unicode Consortium hide caption
Lurking behind this giant pink bow may be a ruthless executive who's decided on a policy of corporate transparency. Calvin YC/Flickr hide caption
A viral video called "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman" shows the harassment a woman faces walking the streets of New York. Most of the men who street-harass, catcall, yell and follow the woman are black and Latino. Hollaback! hide caption
Chris Deschene greets supporters in Arizona in early October. Felicia Fonseca/AP hide caption
The author (right) and his sister, one awkward Halloween day. Courtesy of Steve Haruch hide caption
Vincent Flewellen leads a lesson on Ferguson during his eighth-grade multicultural studies course at Ladue Middle School. Tim Lloyd/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the early days — with the original Aunt Viv, too! AP hide caption
Supporters of Navajo presidential candidate Chris Deschene gather outside an administrative court in Window Rock, Ariz. Questions about his fluency in the Navajo language have dogged his campaign. Felicia Fonseca/AP hide caption
Julia O'Rourke (center) wins the 2014 World Irish Dancing Championships. Here, she poses with the top five performers in her age group. Jimmy McNulty/FeisPix hide caption
Fox's Gotham stars (from left) John Doman, Camren Bicondova, Jada Pinkett Smith, Robin Lord Taylor and Cory Michael Smith. The show was recently criticized for initially selecting a white stuntwoman as a body double for a black guest star. Fox TV hide caption
Scene still from Bert Williams Lime Kiln Field Day Project. Bert Williams, Walker Thompson (standing center), John Wesley Jenkins (seated right). In a concession to white audiences, Williams, the lead, wore blackface, but the other black characters did not. Museum of Modern Art hide caption
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Lisa Wu Hartwell gets a hair treatment at a "Curl Party" hosted by Carol's Daughter and theYBF.com in 2010. Paras Griffin/Landov hide caption
Paul Wong (Harry Shum, Jr.) leads the Green Dragons, a young, Asian-American gang that trafficked Chinese immigrants into the U.S. with help from the so-called "Snakehead Mama" (Eugenia Yuan). Courtesy of A24 Films hide caption
A voter casts her ballot at a polling site for Georgia's 2014 primary election in Atlanta. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Bethann Hardison said that Oscar de la Renta wasn't scared about putting models of color on the runway in his clothes. Evan Agostini/AP hide caption
The Boston Herald published this cartoon earlier this month. The Boston Herald hide caption
Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris) plays Lionel Higgins in Dear White People Roadside Attractions hide caption