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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Young Londoners design emojis with Afro hairstyles in bid for better representation online

A group of young East Londoners have designed emojis with Afro hairstyles in a bid to increase equality and representation.

Community support group Rise.365 says that despite there being almost 4,000 emojis in common use, none represent a black or mixed-race hairstyles.

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